Welcome message from the chair

We are very pleased to welcome you to the 14th edition of the IEEE IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio- Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), in Ottawa, Ontario, the National Capital of Canada. Similar to the previous editions, HAVE 2015 is a truly international event bringing together members of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the Haptics community from Canada, and the world. It promises to be an exciting and comprehensive symposium covering aspects of multimodal haptics, audio/visual virtual reality technologies, augments reality and telepresence, distributed collaborative environments and gaming, and all their related applications.