Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Hannah Elbaggari

Master's Student
Hannah is a Master's student in Computer Science focusing on HCI. She recently completed her Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Systems (Linguistics) at UBC which is when she started her involvement with SPIN. She is interested in the intersection of multimodal communication, collaboration, UX, and design justice.
Year Departed: 
2022
Publication: 
Chu, T. H., Marino, D., Elbaggari, H., Gick, B., & MacLean, KE. (2019). "Testing Symmetry Of Temporal Window Of Integration In Vibrotactile And Auditory Speech Information On Phoneme Perception." Canadian Acoustics; Vol 46, No 4 (2018).
Marino, D. G., Elbaggari, H., Chu, T. H., Gick, B., & MacLean, K. (2019). "Single-Channel Vibrotactile Feedback For Voicing Enhancement In Trained And Untrained Perceivers." Canadian Acoustics; Vol 46, No 4 (2018).
Shakeri, H., Elbaggari, H., Bucci, P., Xiao, R., and MacLean, K.E.. “FoldMold: Automating Papercraft for Fast DIY Casting of Scalable Curved Shapes,” in Proc. Graphics Interface, 2021, pp. 10.

Anita Shah

Undergraduate Student

Anita Shah is an undergraduate computer science student in the BCS program here at UBC. She is specializing in mechatronics and machine learning and is currently volunteering in Paul Bucci's lab to develop soft robots with increased freedom of movement and emotive behaviors.

Personal Homepage: 
https://anitafrakingshah.github.io/
Year Departed: 
2020

Linda Jiang

Undergraduate Student
Year Departed: 
2018

Kevin Chow

Master's Student
kchowk@cs.ubc.ca

Kevin is an undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science at UBC. He joined the SPIN lab as a volunteer to learn more about and participate in Human-Computer Interaction research. He is currently helping in the development of various applications and interactions based around the Gelly sensor. 

Year Departed: 
2019
Publication: 
Ustek, D., Chow, K., Zhang, H., & MacLean, K. "A Multimodal Illusion of Force Improves Control Perception in Above-Surface Gesture: Elastic Zed-Zoom." In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, 2018.

Sophia Chen

Undergraduate Student
Year Departed: 
2017

Mario Cimet

Undergraduate Student

I recently graduated from the Cognitive Systems program at UBC. My coursework and research experience have centered around designing intelligent systems and modelling human capabilities. I’m interested in how these activities can inform each other. At SPIN I work with Laura Cang and Paul Bucci on developing affect recognition with the Cuddlebot - with the goal of eventually developing therapeutic techniques around it.

Year Departed: 
2017

Lorita Li

Undergraduate Student
Year Departed: 
2017

Lotus Hanzi Zhang

Undergraduate Student

Lotus is an undergraduate UBC student double majroing in Computer Science and Psychology. She is interested in interaction techniques, such as AR/VR, haptic and multimodal interaction, and their influence to human emotion/cognition. Lotus is currently research assisting mixForBits (MacaronMix for CuddleBits) tool development and study design/execution.

Year Departed: 
2019

Haihua Zhang

Undergraduate Student
Year Departed: 
2017

Sazi Valair

Undergraduate Student

Sazi is an undergraduate UBC student in the Cognitive Systems program (B.Sc. Brain & Cognition Stream). She has many interests, but her top interests include developmental cognitive psychology, education, human robot interaction, and user experience design. When Sazi is not working, she enjoys spending time with (and taking many pictures of) her two cats.

Year Departed: 
2017