Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

May 2023

Devyani McLaren is awarded the Best TA award! 

SPIN student Devyani McLaren was awarded the Best TA award for her work in TA'ing CPSC 344. Congratulations Devyani! 

 

May 2023

SPIN Students organize and attend HapticHIVE hackathon at UBC-O! 

In collaboration with Pourang Irani and his students, SPIN students organized and attended a Hackathon for Inbodied Vibrotactile Exploration at UBC Okanagan. Thank you to Pourang and his students for this fun and innovative collaboration! 

April 2023

Elizabeth Reid and Devyani McLaren present at the CRA-WP workshop in San Francisco!

PhD student Devyani McLaren and MSc student Elizabeth Reid, were selected to attend the Computing Research Association Women's workshop (CRA-WP). During their time they both shared their PhD work with fellow students, industry leaders and professors. Elizabeth presented on: ESSBOTS - Emotional Supportive Swarm Robots. Devyani presented on: Atomic Behaviours as a Path towards Self-Design of Affective Haptic Robots.

March 2023

Preeti Vyas and Devyani McLaren present at the CRA-IDEALS workshop in Hawaii!

April 2023

SPIN students present a CHI 2023 Demo. Demonstrating Virtual Teamwork with Synchrobots: A Robot-Mediated Approach to Improving Connectedness.SPIN PhD students, Laura Cang, Devyani McLaren, Rubia Reis Guerra and Preeti Vyas, worked with a visiting undergrad student from Japan (University of Tokyo), Yuna Watanabe (now PhD student at Northeastern) to demo Synchrobots! ACM Publication: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3583896

July 2023

"Characterizing Affiliative Touch in Humans and its Role in Advancing Haptic Design" Accepted in Annals of the Academy of New York Sciences. 

May 2023

Elizabeth Reid wins Best Demo award at the DFP Design Showcase 2023 for her project ESSbots: Designing emotionally supportive swarm robots for remote social connection. 

Congratulations Elizabeth!

November 2022

Congratulations to our recent SPIN graduates Hannah Elbaggari, Unma Desai, Kattie Sepheri, and Rubia Guerra! 

 

FSR, EEG, and Emotion Labelled Dataset (FEEL)

We present our FEEL (Force, EEG and Emotion-Labelled) dataset, a collection of brain activity, keypress force data, labeled with self-reported emotion during tense videogame play (N=16); open-sourced for community exploration and available for download here.

May 2022

Unma Desai wins Best Demo award at the DFP Design Showcase 2022 for her project myWeekInsight: A Data Visualization-based Pain Management Application for Youth with Chronic Pain!

The demo video can be found here: https://youtu.be/fRTIVOLE_2Q

Congratulations Unma!