Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

November 2018 (3)

Haptipedia Workshop and Magic Pen Demo at Asiahaptics in Songdo, South Korea!
 
Come say "Hi!" to Hasti and Soheil who are in Songdo, South Korea (Nov 12 - 17) to represent Haptipedia and Magic Pen as a workshop and a demo respectively! Read about these projects here: Magic Pen and Haptipedia.
 

November 2018 (2)

HapticSpeech is at the Acoustical Society of America in Victoria, BC
 
Come say "Hi!" to David, Sophy, and Hannah who are in Victoria, BC (Nov 5 - 9) to present HapticSpeech, a collaboration with Bryan Gick of UBC Linguistics. Read more about HapticSpeech here!

HAART: Human-Animal Affective Robot Touch

Social touch gestures performed on a variety of different substrate combinations and collected using a custom-DIY fabric sensor. Originally made available as part of the ICMI '15 Grand Challenge and currently published at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

November 2018 (1)

Soheil's proposal accepted for an internship at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Congratulations to Soheil! He has been invited on a summer internship at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. We'll all be watching for some exciting updates from Soheil this summer

Products of Research

Tools

Macaron: An Online, Open-source Vibrotactile Editor

Macaron is a free, open-source, online haptic editor that features an example based approach in further developing a haptic design.  http://hapticdesign.github.io/macaron/

MacaronMix: An Online Platform for Vibrotactile Interpolation

MacaronMix is an online, open-source tool for morphing haptic signals. Designers, researchers, and hapticians can use this tool to create and study haptic icons, and to develop new morphing algorithms. Link: http://hapticdesign.github.io/macaronmix/

VibViz: Vibrotactile Effect Visualization and Customization

An online example of how to organize and find particular tactile signals for customization needs. Try it out at:http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~seifi/VibViz/main.html

Hardware

MacaronKit: USB Powered Mono-audio Amplifier

A DIY amplifier to drive vibration feedback from your laptop. Check it out at: http://www.instructables.com/id/MacaronKit-USB-Powered-Mono-Audio-Amplifier/

Twiddlerino

A low-cost rotary haptic interface that runs on the arduino platform. Check it out at https://github.com/ubcspin/Twiddlerino.

Datasets

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.

HAART: Human-Animal Affective Robot Touch

Social touch gestures performed on a variety of different substrate combinations and collected using a custom-DIY fabric sensor. Originally made available as part of the ICMI '15 Grand Challenge and currently published at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

RRACE: Robust Realtime Algorithm for Cadence Estimation

Dataset pertaining to an algorithm for accurate real-time cadence estimation using accelerometers found in common smartphones. Available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

VibViz Library Dataset

This repository contains all 120 vibrations for the VibViz library including their (.wav) files, their aggregated ratings and tags, and the MDS dimensions for the Sensation, Emotion, Metaphor, and Usage Facets. Check it out at: https://github.com/hastiseifi/VibViz-Dataset

MacaronMix: An Online Platform for Vibrotactile Interpolation

MacaronMix is an online, open-source tool for morphing haptic signals. Designers, researchers, and hapticians can use this tool to create and study haptic icons, and to develop new morphing algorithms. Link: http://hapticdesign.github.io/macaronmix/

RRACE: Robust Realtime Algorithm for Cadence Estimation

Dataset pertaining to an algorithm for accurate real-time cadence estimation using accelerometers found in common smartphones. Available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

VibViz Library Dataset

This repository contains all 120 vibrations for the VibViz library including their (.wav) files, their aggregated ratings and tags, and the MDS dimensions for the Sensation, Emotion, Metaphor, and Usage Facets. Check it out at: https://github.com/hastiseifi/VibViz-Dataset