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

Audio Fields:

• Product Design & Manufacturing - Research & Development
• Recording Industry - Game Audio
• Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Hearing - Hearing and Hearing Loss Prevention
• Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Hearing - Measurement and Instrumentation
• Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Hearing - Musical Acoustics
• Consumer - Telecommunications Hardware
• Product Design & Manufacturing - Transducers

Job Duties:

• Engineer
• Consultant
• Corporate Manager
• Designer
• Hardware Designer
• Manager
• Researcher
• Systems Designer

About

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.

Education Background

Post-Doc, 1999-2002: M.I.T.
Ph.D. Bioeng, 1993-1999: U. of Utah
B.A. Hum. Biology, 1991: Stanford

Employment History

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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