Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

June 2021

Preeti Vyas receives the Graduate TA Award from UBC Computer Science for 2021

Congratulations to Preeti!

May 2021

 "What's in a name? Issues in Triangulating Self-Reported Emotion to Establish Trustable Labels" paper accepted at CHI '21  Workshop on Momentary Emotion Elicitation and Capture!  

May 2021

 "Accountability-Aware Design of Voice User Interfaces for Home Appliances" accepted at GI21!

Congratulations to Soheil Kianzad, Yelim Kim, Julia Ann Barakso Lindsay, Yue Huang, Julian Benavides Benavides, Rock Leung, Karon E. MacLean on their accepted submission to Graphics Interface 2021!
More details on the paper can be found here

May 2021

 "FoldMold: Automating Papercraft for Fast DIY Casting of Scalable Curved Shapes" accepted at GI21!

Congratulations to Hanieh Shakeri, Hannah Elbaggari, Paul Bucci, Robert Xiao, and Karon E. MacLean on their accepted submission to Graphics Interface 2021!
More details on the paper can be found here

November 2020

Dr. Karon MacLean's DFP@UBC Seminar on Emotional robots and magical objects

Dr. Karon MacLean gave a talk on "Emotional robots and magical objects: What part of our internal experience is readable by a touch-sensitive machine?" during the DFP@UBC seminar on November 18, 2020. The recorded session can be found at: https://youtu.be/UXBsrPW-ayU

October 2020

Dr. Karon MacLean is mentioned on the eight Women in Robotics list!
 
The 30 Women in Robotics you need to know about  list was published on Ada Lovelace Day (October 13, 2020) and features women in robotics in China, Japan, Malaysia, Israel, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, India and Iran. There are researchers, industry leaders, and artists, including women at the start of their careers as well as those with years of experience.

April 2020

CHI 2020 Best Paper awarded to "Designing and Evaluating Calmer, a Device for Simulating Maternal Skin-to-Skin Holding for Premature Infants"
 
Congratulations to Dr. Sabrina Hauser, Dr. Melinda Suto, Dr. Liisa Holsti, Dr. Manon Ranger and Dr. Karon MacLean!
 

October 2020

Virtual UIST 2020 (General co-chair Karon MacLean) has successfully concluded! 
 
The virtual conference innovated in the delivery of online demos, and a rich, interactive social program, with conversations that are continuing post-conference.
The public program gallery is now online and can be found on the conference website

August 2020

Hanieh Shakeri completes her Master's degree

Congratulations to Hanieh!

May 2020

K-Index Award won by "Phasking on Paper: Accessing a Continuum of PHysically Assisted SKetchING" at the DFP Showcase 2020

Congratulations to Soheil for winning the K-Index Award (the audience's favourite project)!