PhD endeavours

World Haptics Conference, held in the spring, every other year on odd years
EuroHaptics, held jointly with World Haptics on odd years and at a venue in Europe in early summer on even years.
Haptics Symposium, held jointly with World Haptics on odd years and at a venue in the United States in the early spring on even years.
HAID (International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

SPIN, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, Karon MacLean, Vincent Levesque, Brian Gleeson
Vincent Hayward, old McGilllink
Multimodal Interaction Group, University of Glasgow Stephen Brewster
Disney Research, Ivan Poupyrev and Ali Israr.
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, University of Pennsylvania, webpage, Haptic interfaces talk
William Provancher, University of Utah, Haptics and Embedded Mechatronics Laboratory (HEML)
John Morrell, Human-Machine Interface Lab, Yale University, link
CERTEC, Lund, Sweden, link, Charlotte Magnusson

Immersion, Leading Innovator in Haptics Technology:
Design Guidelines for UHL, Webinar series: http://vimeo.com/28404084]Designing Haptics in Mobile Applications
Sensable, leading developer of 3D touch-enabled (force feedback) solutions and technology
Nokia: Symbian Design Guidelines

Haptic Paddle, 1 DOF, education + DIY, many variations/configurations, link
Novint Falcon, Consumer Haptic Controller, ~250 USD, link
Sensable hatpic controller, Phantom family of devices, OpenHaptics development framework, link
TactileLabs, Haptuator haptic actuator, ~200 CAN,link
Engineering Acoustics, C2 Tactor, vibrotactile transducer, ~250 USD

Camille and his PhD Wiki on Design + Haptics