Devyani McLaren

devyanim@cs.ubc.ca

Devyani is a PhD student with the SPiN lab. She completed her BSc from UBC, majoring in Cognitive Systems (COGS): Computational Intelligence and Design. During her undergraduate degree, she completed research in the Brain Behaviour Lab for robot-assisted rehabilitation for stroke patients. She hopes to combine her interests in Neuroscience and HCI at SPiN. She is currently focussing on the customization of haptic emotional support robots.

SPIN Publications

McLaren, Gao, Yin, Guerra., Vyas, Morton, Cang, Chen, Su, Li, Madden, MacLean. What is Affective Touch Made Of? A Soft Capacitive Sensor Array Reveals the Interplay between Shear, Normal Stress and and Individuality. UIST, 2024.
Yin, X., Gao, J., Guerra, R. R., Morton, C., McLaren, D., Vyas, P., Cang, X. L., Ishizaki, R., Madden, J., & MacLean, K. E. "ShearSense: A soft flexible sensing array for capturing shear and normal stress in affective touch". Proc. Eurohaptics - Hands-On
Yuna Watanabe, Xi Laura Cang, Rúbia Reis Guerra, Devyani Mclaren, Preeti Vyas, Jun Rekimoto, and Karon E Maclean. 2023. "Demonstrating Virtual Teamwork with Synchrobots: A Robot-Mediated Approach to Improving Connectedness." In Extended Abstracts of the 2