Regular biography
Cara M. Nunez is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Cornell University. Her research interests are not explicitly detailed in the provided information. She can be contacted via email at cmn97@cornell.edu, and her profile page is available at https://www.duffield.cornell.edu/people/cara-m-nunez/.
Scholar-generated biography
Cara M. Nunez is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, specializing in Haptics, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Assistive Devices. Her research focuses on developing haptic technologies that enable natural and intuitive human-machine interactions. She explores methods to create continuous lateral motion through sequential normal indentation and investigates social haptic illusions for tactile stroking. Nunez also designs wearable, pneumatic haptic devices capable of delivering normal, shear, vibration, and torsion feedback. Her work emphasizes the use of haptic feedback in assistive technologies, mobile devices, and medical applications such as ultrasound-based needle-insertion procedures.