Haptics Generally speaking, the word "haptics", derived from the Greek haptesthai , implies anything related to the sense of touch. More specifically,  it means information acquisition and object manipulation through touch by humans and machines in real, virtual or teleoperated environments. PROJECTS TeleTouch Haptics mediated collaborative performance Dynamic PointTM: A fast line-based collision detection algorithm SPONSORS      Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute office of Research      Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) @ RPI INVESTIGATORS     Suvranu De     Shivkumar Kalyanaraman     Jonas Braasch     Michael Century     Curtis Bahn     Pauline Oleveros     Tomie Hahn