Vincent Hayward

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Full Name	Vincent Hayward
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1955(1955-01-05)
Age	69
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Capricorn

Vincent Hayward Biography

Vincent Hayward is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on January 5, 1955 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Vincent Hayward, born January 5, 1955, in Paris is an engineer with a specialization in haptics and touch. He is an associate professor in the Sorbonne University, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) in 2008, where the team he heads is that studies haptic perception as well as the design of devices that stimulate the tactile. In the year 2020, he was appointed to the French Academy of sciences.

Vincent Hayward is a Professor at Sorbonne Universite in Paris. Beforethat, he was in his Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada which he joined as an full professor in the year 2006 and also served as director of the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines from 2001 until 2004. Then, in 2008, he was an appointed Fellow of the IEEE. In 2017 and 2018 Vincent Hayward was Professor of Tactile Perception and Technology at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, funded by an Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, following the period of six years being an advanced ERC grantee at Sorbonne Universite. Vincent Hayward is currently spending part of his time working on the development of a startup business located in Paris, Actronika SAS, committed to reducing the accessibility barriers to haptic technology.

In in the year 2000 after having achieved the creation of electromechanical devices as well as the control they provide, Vincent Hayward turned his complete focus on the study of the sensation of touch in humans with the help of an empirical method, his findings which he attempted to generalize abstractly. His initial significant scientific breakthrough in the area of touch was the scientific evidence of an observation he made on the graphical- haptic conversion process. This is significant from a scientific standpoint since it shows that touch is able to take into account the internal information created by nerves in order to create a conscious sensation. Later, he recreated this phenomenon by employing a variety of methods such as eliminating skin sensations with anaesthetic in order to reveal an inexplicably copying mechanism. Other methods, like the ones that resulted from his invention of High-Resolution Conduction of the Glabrous surface through lateral traction, he discovered a range of phenomena that could be attributed to various variables of physiological or physical basis.

Vincent Hayward Net Worth

Vincent Hayward is one of the richest Engineer from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vincent Hayward 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vincent Hayward came to be attracted by the feeling of touch in 1991 , while involved in the design of the “force feedback” device intended to ease access to computers for people who are visually impaired. Computer interfaces were at that time transforming from simple commands to interfaces that were graphical/mouse. This was a catastrophe for visually impaired people since they were not able to access a variety of professions that required computers. The system that he invented transformed graphic representations into haptic ones which is to say representations that can be accessed through movement and gestures. Vincent Hayward observed that blind users of the system could express their feelings spontaneously by using three-dimensional terms for example, being guided by an “trough” or to “fall into an icon”. The forces generated by the device however, could only be experienced in two dimensions. This led Hayward to conclude that the haptic experience are not explained by simple correlations between mechanical signals and the sensations.

These findings are also significant from a practical perspective the point of sensors that transmit data (graphic screens or loudspeakers, VR devices) all depend in some way, whether intentionally or implicitly on the understanding of human perceptual behavior. Recognizing the potential of these findings, in 1995, Vincent Hayward co-founded Haptic Technologies Inc. which’s mission was to make use of this information to make it easier for hardware to interact via computer-aided software for design (CAD). Within five years, the company was able to attract many million of investment, which was transferred at the end of 2000 by Immersion Corp. for $7 million. It then became Immersion Canada Inc., the R&D division of Immersion Corp which is valued to be worth nearly half one billion dollars. The company wasn’t the only one fascinated by his efforts. “Virtual button” or “virtual buttons”, which are available on a few smartphones is an example of an direct application as well as Vincent Hayward was employed as consultant for Apple in 2013.

These new works rekindled his interest in the industrial adventure. Vincent Hayward co-authored more than forty patents, the most recent assigned to a newly created company, Actronika, which he co-founded in 2017. It benefits from investments by Quadrivium VC and Novares Venture Capital, is a partner in several H2020 projects, and counts among its clients several major companies in the field of transport, portable electronics, and video games. It already provides a formidable ground for exploiting these developments.

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