HugMe

The hug me system is a haptic audio visual system that facilitates video conferencing and add to it the sense of touch or haptics. 

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Fawaz A Alsulaiman, Atif Alamri, Lara Rahal, Daniel J. Martin, “A Synchronous Interpersonal Haptic Communication System,” US Patent 8,294,557, October 23, 2012 (Patent).

Mohamad Eid, Ahmad El-Issawi, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Slingshot 3D: A synchronous haptic-audio-video game”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springers, November 2012.
Mohamad Eid, Jongeun Cha, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Admux: An Adaptive Multiplexer for Haptic Audio Visual Data Communication”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2010.

Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Touchable 3D Video System”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2009. 

Mohamad Eid and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Admux Communication Protrocol For Real-time Multimodal Intreaction” in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 25-27, 2012, Dublin, Ireland. 

Mohamad Eid, Jonguen Cha, and Abdelmotaleb El Saddik, “An Adaptive Multiplexer for Multi-Modal Data Communication”, IEEE Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games, Lecco, Italy, 2009. 

Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Ahmad Barghout, ASM Mahfujur Rahman, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “HugMe: Synchronous Haptic Teleconferencing,” ACM International Conference on Multimedia, The Multimedia Grand Challenge, pp. 1135- 1136, Beijing, China, Oct. 19-24, 2009.