Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

MUX Research Group Demo's work to Scott Hudson and Pam Briggs

The MUX Research group held a demo session for visitors Scott Hudson and Pam Briggs. Thank you to our visitors for attending! 

Touchable Comfort Objects Demo presented at Haptics Symposium

SPIN showcases ongoing research projects to visitors from the Honda Research Institute 

In collaboration with Pourang Irani at UBC Okanagan, SPIN students demoed a variety of current projects. Thank you to our visitors! 

Welcome to Visiting Researcher Mirella Hladky!

Mirella visits SPIN in September and October 2023. She is a researcher in the Affective Computing Group (https://affective.dfki.de/) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Her background is psychology and affective computing and she specializes in emotion analysis and modeling. She supports SPIN in the TouchTales and Happraisal project. Welcome Mirella! 

Welcome to new SPIN Student Rocco Run! 

Rocco is starting in the PhD-track program, working on the ESSbots project. He previously completed a BASc in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in robotics. Welcome Rocco! 

Congratulations to Elizabeth Reid for her graduation! 

Elizabeth graduates with her Masters Degree from SPIN, submitting a thesis titled "How Teens can Build Social Connection Through an Emotionally Supportive Robot Swarm" 

Congratulations Elizabeth!

Nao Rojas, Daniel Chen, Rúbia Reis Guerra, Xi Laura Cang, Bereket Guta and Karon MacLean submitted their demo of "A Tool for Capturing Customized Multi-Pass Emotion Self-Reports while Touching and Telling" at IEEE World Haptics 2023.

Bereket, Tommy and Karon attended WHC 2023 to present. Congratulations to all involved! 

SPIN students Bereket Guta and Tommy Nguyen presented a demo of their CanHap project "Feel the Shift" at IEEE World Haptics 2023.

The demo, along with two other CanHap project demos, explored haptic and multimodal UX design with teams distributed across Canada. Congratulations to all involved! 

Rubia Guerra and Laura Cang Receive CS Department Awards! 

Congratulations to Laura for her graduate TA Award for CPSC 344, and to Rubia for her Student Community Building Award for her work with the Computer Science Graduate Student Society!