Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

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!

Devyani McLaren is awarded an NSERC CGSM fellowship!

Congratulations Devyani!

Haptics For All: Democratizing the Haptic Design Ecosystem, a guest post by Hannah Elbaggari for the In-Touch Project at University College London

Hannah Elbaggari wrote a blog for In-Touch, on Democratizing the Haptic Design Ecosystem, now live here: https://in-touch-digital.com/2022/03/11/haptics-for-all-democratizing-th...

Great writing Hannah!

Dr. Karon MacLean has been appointed as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Interactive Human Systems Design

She is one of the 19 UBC researchers who were named new Canada Research Chairs in the most recent appointments announced January 12, 2022. 

Read more here: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2022/01/dr-karon-maclean-has-been-appointed-c...

Congratulations Karon!

Calmer mentioned in the New York Times for conscientious and ethical haptics research!

The meticulous design process for Calmer was discussed relative to Facebook AI's potential future somatosensory developments in this NYT article by JoAnna Novak. SPIN alum Steve Yohanan's work on the Haptic Creature was also mentioned!

Karon MacLean gives her keynote talk at ICMI 2021 on October 20^th: Incorporating haptics into the theatre of multimodal experience design; and the ecosystem this requires

View the recorded talk through this link: ICMI 2021 Day 2 Keynote: Karon MacLean

The Calmer project (Liisa Holsti and Karon MacLean) is featured in a Research in 90sec’s podcast (by Sayra Cristancho)!

Listen to it here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-t74j6-108f54c

Preeti Vyas is the ICMI 2021 SV co-chair!

Karon MacLean will be delivering a keynote address at ICMI 2021 (International Conf on Multimodal Interaction), hopefully - fingers crossed - in person in Montreal in October!