Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Laura Cang

cang@cs.ubc.ca

Laura's interest in social robotics and touch interaction brought her to the SPIN lab to improve on the touch sensing capabilities of the CuddleBot - a cat sized robot designed for therapeutic use. Her work developing machine recognition and interpretation of social touch behaviour has been published in HRI and ICMI.

Publication:

Cang, X. L., Bucci, P., Strang, Allen, J., MacLean, K. E., and Liu, H. Y. S., "Different Strokes and Different Folks: Economical Dynamic Surface Sensing and Affect-Related Touch Recognition." In Proc of ICMI '15, Seattle, WA, USA, Nov 2015, pp. 147-154.

Allen, J., Cang, L., Phan-Ba, M., Strang, A., and MacLean, K.E., “Introducing the CuddleBot: A Robot That Responds to Touch Gestures,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) - Demo, Portland, 2015.

Jung, M.M., Cang, X.L, Poel, M., MacLean, K.E., "Touch Challenge'15: Recognizing Social Touch Gestures." In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2015 Nov 9 (pp. 387-390). ACM.

Cang, L., Bucci, P., and MacLean, K.E., “CuddleBits: Friendly, Low-cost Furballs that Respond to Your Touch,” in Proc. of ACM Int'l Conf on Multimomdal Interaction (ICMI) - Demo, Seattle, WA, pp. 2, 2015.