As well as her position in electrical engineering and computer science at Purdue, Tan holds courtesy appointments in Purdue's departments of mechanical engineering and psychological sciences.[3] In 2006, she became founding chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics.[4] She has taken leaves from Purdue to head the Human Computer Interaction Group at Microsoft Research Asia,[2] to take a professorship in psychology at Beijing Normal University, and to work as lead haptics scientist for Google.[4]
Research
Tan's research has included the development of chairs that can sense the posture of people sitting in them,[5] and wearable devices that can translate spoken language into vibrations that can be felt on the skin, as a way of making speech accessible to hearing-impaired people.[6]
Recognition
Tan was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017, "for contributions to wearable haptics".[7]
References
^ ab"Hong Z. Tan", Our people, Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, retrieved 2022-06-24