Hsin-Ni Ho, Ph.D.

Researcher

Perception and Emotion Research Group

Human and Information Science Lab

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

ho.hsinni (at) lab.ntt.co.jp 
Tel: +81 46 240 4594 >
Fax: +81 46 250 4450 >
3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa,
243-0198, JAPAN

 

 

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Education

2006.9    Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Thesis under Dr. Lynette A. Jones on “Development of Thermal Model for Haptic Interfaces.”

2002.6    M.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Thesis under Prof. Y.M. Huang on “Topic Identification System Based on Fuzzy Set Theory.”

2000.6    B.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

 

Publication

> Journal Paper

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2011). "Mechanisms underlying referral of thermal sensations to sites of tactile stimulation," Journal of Neuroscience, 31(1), pp. 208-213. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2640-10.2011

 

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., & Ho, H.-N. (2010). "Whole-body vibration influences on front-back sound localization," Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering, 224, pp. 1311-1320.

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2010). "Somatotopic or Spatiotopic? Frame of reference for localizing thermal sensations under thermo-tactile interactions," Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, pp. 1666-1675.

 DOI:10.3758/APP.72.6.1666

 

Jones, L.A. and Ho, H.-N. (2008) “Warm or Cool, Large or Small? The Challenge of Thermal Displays,” IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 1 (1), pp/ 53-70.

URL: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TOH.2008.2  

DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2008.2

 

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2008) “Modeling the Thermal Responses of the Skin Surface during Hand-Object Interactions,” ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 130 (2).

URL: http://link.aip.org/link/?JBY/130/021005
DOI: 10.1115/1.2899574

 

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2007) “Development and Evaluation of a Thermal Display for Material Identification,” ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 4 (2), pp1-24.

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2006) “Contribution of Thermal Cues to Material Discrimination and Localization,” Perception & Psychophysics, 68 (1), pp. 118-128.


> Conference Paper

 

Galie, J., Ho, H.-N., and Jones, L.A. (2009) “Influence of contact conditions on thermal responses of the hand,” World Haptics Conference 2009 (3rd Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems), March 18-20, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., and Ho, H.-N. (2007) “Whole-Body Vibration Influences Sound Localization in the Median Plane,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2007.

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2007) "Monitoring skin temperature during hand-object interactions", Proceedings of the 2007 InfraMation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2007.

Ho, H.-N., Amemiya, T. and Ando, H. (2007) "Revealing invisible traces of human-object interactions with thermal vision", Proceedings of the 2007 InfraMation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2007.

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2007), "Discrimination of Referred Thermal Sensation with Uncrossed and Crossed Fingers ", Proceedings of 12th Annual Conference of Virtual R
eality Society of Japan, Fukuoka, Japan, Sep. 2007 (Oral presentation).

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2007) "Infrared Thermal Measurement System for Evaluating Model-Based Thermal Displays," Proceedings of World Haptics Conference 2007 (2nd Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems), Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 157-163
  (Oral presentation).

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2006) “Thermal Model for Hand-Object Interactions,” IEEE Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Alexandria, Virginia, pp. 461-467.

Ho, H.-N. and Jones, L.A. (2004) “Material Identification Using Real and Simulated Thermal Cues,” Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, California, pp. 2462-2465.

Huang, Y.M. and Ho, H.-N. (2002) “An Evaluation Method for Inconsistency of the AHP Judgment Matrix,” ASME 2002 Design Engineering Technical Conferences And Computers And Information In Engineering Conference, Montréal, Canada, DETC2002/DTM-34010.

Huang, Y.M. and Ho, H.-N. (2000) “Improved Phone-Based Interfaces System,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, DET2000/CIE-14673.



> Conference Abstract

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2010) “Somatotopic or Spatiotopic? Frame of reference for localizing thermal sensations under thermo-tactile interactions,” Program No. 370.18, Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA.

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2010) “Mechanisms underlying referral of thermal sensations to sites of tactile stimulation,” Tactile Research Group meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA.

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2010) " Thermal referral: A filling-in phenomenon that involves cross-modal processing of thermal and tactile stimuli,” 33nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, September 2-4, 2010, Kobe, Japan. (Oral presentation)

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2009). Thermal sensations

redistribute within the tactile boundary, 第一回多感覚研究会, December 16, 2009,

Sendai, Japan.

 

Ho, H.-N., and Craig, A.D. (2009) Feeling of cooling on a non-stimulated skin site: Effect

of vascular response on thermal perception, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan

Neuroscience Society, September 16-18, 2009, Nagoya, Japan.

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2009) Thermal intensity perception

under thermo-tactile interaction, 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, June 

29-July2, 2009, New York City, USA.

 

Ho, H.-N., and Craig, A.D. (2009) Cooling of a non-stimulated skin site due to activation

of sympathetic cutaneous vasoconstrictors,the 3rd International Symposium on

Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation 2009 (PPTR2009), July 23-26,

2009, Matsue, Japan.

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2008), “Perceptual thermal uniformity created by thermal referral,” Program No. 178.28/QQ35 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.


Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2008) “Role of Touch in thermal localization,” in 9th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamburg, Germany, July 16-19, 2008. Psychophysics/ Experimental Psychology session (Oral presentation).

 

Ho, H.-N., Watanabe, J., Ando, H. and Kashino, M. (2007), “Revealing the effects of finger position on referred thermal sensation,” Program No. 714.1 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience.

Jones, L.A. and
Ho, H.-N. (2006) “Model-based Thermal Display for Object Discrimination,” Program No. 147.13 2006 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

Jones, L.A. and
Ho, H.-N. (2004) “The role of thermal cues in material discrimination,” Program No. 653.8 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

 

 

> Invitation

 

Ho, H.-N. (2008), “Role of touch in thermal perception (温度感覚における触覚の役割)” in "Tactile Experience and Multisensory Integration" workshop in 72nd Annual Convention of Japanese Psychological Association, Hokkaido, Japan, September, 19-21, 2008.

 


> Technical Report

雨宮智浩,安藤英由樹,何昕霓"五感インタフェースによるノンバーバルコミュニケーション"NTT技術ジャーナル, Vol. 19, No.6, ()電気通信協会, June 2007.

 

Last updated on 2011/1/5