Job Title: Founder
Company:
Taction Technology Inc.
Status: Member
Member since: 2015
Primary Section:
San Francisco
Company Website: http://www.tactiontechnology.com
Other Professional Website: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3QH2kUgAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn Address: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-biggs/1/bbb/271
Recently started Taction Technology to improve gaming, music, relaxation, and Virtual Reality.
Previously served as a Research Scientist at MIT. In the Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics, also known as "The Touch Lab," led projects in haptics, touch perception, and brain-machine interface. Advised students in Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. work.
Areas of technical expertise include: audio-tactile displays, haptics, actuators, modeling, touch, biomechanics, user perception, mechanical design, elastomers, optimization, R&D planning, R&D execution, and technology transfer.
Post-Doc, 1999-2002: M.I.T.
Ph.D. Bioeng, 1993-1999: U. of Utah
B.A. Hum. Biology, 1991: Stanford
2014 - Present: Founder/CEO, Taction Technology
2005-2014: Principal Scientist, Aritifical Muscle - Bayer - Parker Hannifin (company name changed by acquisitions)
2003-2005: Research Scientist, M.I.T. Touch Lab
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