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CONTACT
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maclean@cs.ubc.ca
Office: ICICS X641 |
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POSITION:
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Associate
Professor
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PROJECTS:
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"A
finger in every pie"
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PUBLICATIONS:
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Please see the publications page for a complete listing.
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BIO:
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I
started out planning to be a doctor (B.Sc. in Biology from Stanford),
then realized that I really wanted to *make* things - so I moved over
to Mechanical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT); but have always
remained firmly lodged at the interface between machines and people.
This meant building and experimenting with one of the first haptic
interfaces in MIT's Biomechanics Lab (in those days, we called them
"kinesthetic" instead of "haptic"). A stint as
a researcher at the erstwhile Interval Research Corp. in Palo Alto,
CA gave me a chance to direct a talented haptic interaction design
team that included a videographer / animator, a physicist, a musical
instrument designer and several musicians as well as mechatronics
engineers and industrial designers. This was a very different environment
than MIT's Mech Eng dept, and got me interested in the potential of
"expressive" physical interfaces; it also put me on the
track of spreading small, simple haptic interfaces ubiquitously around
the world, in the architecture, clothing, cars, portable devices instead
of tethered to a desktop computer.
I
came to UBC in 2001, and hopefully, you can see this vision starting
to happen here.
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INTERESTS:
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Used
to be: stuff like mountaineering and backcountry skiing, classical
piano, writing short stories and gourmet cooking.
As
of January 2002, it is: being a mom, and learning to like macaroni
and cheese...
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AFFILIATED
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http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~maclean/ |
Last Updated On:
November 23, 2006
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