From: Jason Fritz Subject: ONLINE: New Haptics List (revised) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 18:29:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Greetings, As a field of active research, haptics and haptic interfaces is relatively new. Haptics, for anyone who is not familiar with the term, refers to the sense of touch, both tactile and proprioceptive. Haptic interfaces allow force-feedback and manual interaction with virtual or remote environments. In an effort to help the progression of research and interest in this field, the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories of the University of Delaware and the A.I. duPont Institute have created an email list server. This purpose of the list is to create a forum for research discussion, questions, etc. as well as to provide information on the latest applications, devices, software, etc. As with all lists of this type, its success at meeting these goals depends on the participants.There is no way for me to reach everyone interested in haptics, so please pass this along to anyone you know. Thank you. All routine administrative requests (including subscriptions and unsubscriptions) concerning this mailing list are handled by an automated server. Please read this message carefully to find the information relevant to you. SUBSCRIBING =========== To subscribe to haptics, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "Majordomo@asel.udel.edu": subscribe haptics This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to the haptics list. If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local redistribution list), you can use a command of the form: subscribe haptics other-address@your_site.your_net UNSUBSCRIBING ============= To unsubscribe from haptics, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "Majordomo@asel.udel.edu": unsubscribe haptics This will unsubscribe the account from which you send the message. If you are subscribed with some other address, you'll have to send a command of the following form instead: unsubscribe haptics other-address@your_site.your_net If you don't know what address you are subscribed with, you can send the following command to see who else is on the list (assuming that information isn't designated "private" by the owner of the list):o who haptics If you want to search non-privte lists at this server, you can do that by sending a command like: which string This will return a list of all entries on all lists that contain "string". HELP ==== To find out more about the automated server and the commands it understands, send the following command to "Majordomo@asel.udel.edu": help If you feel you need to reach a human, send email to haptics-approval@asel.udel.edu or to myself at fritz@asel.udel.edu. hope to see you on the list, Jason P.S. NWU has recently created a Haptics Community Web Page. Check it out as well. http://haptic.mech.nwu.edu/ Jason P. Fritz Graduate Research Asst., U of Delaware fritz@asel.udel.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering http://www.asel.udel.edu/~fritz/