Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Levesque, V., Oram, L., and MacLean, K. E., “Exploring the Design Space of Programmable Friction for Scrolling Interactions,” in Proceedings of IEEE Haptic Symposium (HAPTICS '12), Vancouver, Canada, March 2012, pp. 23-30. (Best Paper Award). view
MacLean, K. E., Hayward, V. (2008). "Do It Yourself Haptics, Part II: Interaction Design", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 15, no. 1, pages 104-119, March 2008. view
Seifi, H., Anthonypillai, C., and MacLean, K.E., “End-user Customization of Affective Tactile Messages: A Qualitative Examination of Tool Parameters,” in Proc. of IEEE Haptic Symposium (HAPTICS '14), Houston, pp. 251 - 256, 2014. view
Flagg, A., and MacLean, K. E., “Affective touch gesture recognition for a furry zoomorphic machine,” in Proc. of Int'l Conf on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Barcelona, pp. 25-32 2013. view
Oram, L., "Scrolling in Radiology Image Stacks: Multimodal Annotations and Diversifying Control Mobility,", M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. view
MacLean, K. E., Roderick, J. B. (1999). "Aladdin: Exploring Language with a Haptic Door Knob." Interval Research Corp TR# 1999-058. view
Pava, G., MacLean, K. (2004). "Real Time Platform Middleware for Transparent Prototyping of Haptic Applications." in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE-VR2004, Chicago, USA, 2004. view
Swindells, C., MacLean, K. E. (2006). "Captured Dynamics Data of 5 Mechanical Knobs", Technical Report TR-2006-14, UBC Dept. of Computer Science, Vancouver, 2006. view
Schneider, O., MacLean, K., Swindells, C., Booth, K. "Haptic Experience Design: What Hapticians Do and Where They Need Help." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Special Edition on Multisensory HCI. 2017. view
Williams, N., MacLean, K. E., Guan, L., Collet, J. P., & Holsti, L. (2019). "Pilot Testing a Robot for Reducing Pain in Hospitalized Preterm Infants." Occupational Therapy Journal of Research (OTJR): Occupation, Participation & Health. view
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, 10 pgs, 2021. view
Yohanan, S. and MacLean, K. E., “The Role of Affective Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Intent & Expectations in Touching the Haptic Creature,” International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO), Special Issue on Expectations, Intentions and Actions. Vol 4, No 2, April 2012, pp. 163-180. view
Enriquez, M. J., MacLean, K. E. (2008). "The Role of Choice in Longitudinal Recall of Meaningful Tactile Signals", in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, pages 49-56, Reno, Nevada, USA, March 2008. (Best Paper: Haptics Science award). view
Schneider, O., and MacLean, K. E. “Reflections on a WYFIWIF Tool for Eliciting User Feedback,” in CHI Workshops - Tactile UX. Toronto, CAN: ACM, 2014, pp. 5 pages. view
Dawson, J., Schneider, O., Ferstay, J., Toker, D., Link, J., Haddad, S. and MacLean, K. E. “It’s Alive! Exploring the Concept of a Living Phone,” in Proc. of Graphics Interface, Regina CAN, pp. 205-212, 2013. view
Ternes, D., "Building Large Sets of Haptic Icons: rhythm as a design parameter, and between-subjects MDS for evaluation", M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. view
MacLean, K. E., Snibbe, S. S. (1999). "An Architecture for Haptic Control of Media." The 8th Annual Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, ASME / IMECE, Nashville, TN. Interval Research Corp TR# 1999-024. view
Enriquez, M. J., MacLean, K. E. (2004). "Impact of Haptic Warning Signal Reliability in a Time-and-Safety-Critical Task." in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE-VR2004, Chicago, USA, 2004. view
Swindells, C., MacLean, K. E., Booth, K. S., Meitner, M. (2006). "A Case-Study of Affect Measurement Tools for Physical User Interface Design." in Proceedings of Graphics Interface, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI2006, Quebec City, Canada, June 2006. view
Clark, B., Schneider, O., MacLean, K., Tan, H.Z. "Predictable and Distinguishable Morphing of Vibrotactile Rhythm." World Haptics Conference. 2017. view
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). view
Soheil Kianzad, Yelim Kim, Julia Ann Barakso Lindsay, Yue Huang, Julian Benavides Benavides, Rock Leung, Karon E MacLean. “Accountability-Aware Design of Voice User Interfaces for Home Appliances,” Graphics Interface, 10 pgs, 2021. view
MacLean, K. E. (2009). "Putting Haptics into the Ambience." in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 2, no. 3, pages 123-135, July 13 2009. view
Enriquez, M., MacLean, K. E. (2008). "Backward and Common-Onset Masking of Vibrotactile Stimuli", Brain Research Bulletin, Special Issue on Robotics and Neuroscience, vol. 75, no. 6. pages 761-769, 2008. view
Pan, M. K. X. J., McGrenere, J., MacLean, K. E., and Croft, E. A. “Exploring the Role of Haptic Feedback in an Implicit HCI-Based Bookmarking Application,” IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 7:1, pp. 24-36, 2014. view
Karuei, I., MacLean, K. E., Foley-Fisher, Z., Mackenzie, R., Koch, S., and El-Zohairy, M., “Detecting Vibrations Across the Body in Mobile Contexts,” in Proc. of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 3267-3276, 2011. view
Enriquez, M., "Design of Haptic Signals for Information Communication in Everyday Environments" Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of British Columbia, 2008. view
Levitin, D. J., Mathews, M. V., MacLean, K. (1999), "The Perception of Cross-Modal Simultaneity", in Proceedings of International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Belgium, 1999. view
Brouwer, I., MacLean, K. E., Hodgson, A.J. (2004). "Simulating Cheap Hardware: A Platform for Evaluating Cost-Performance Trade-Offs in Haptic Hardware Design." in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2004, vol. 1, April 26 - May 1 2004, pages 770-775. view
Enriquez, M., MacLean, K. E., Chita, C. (2006). "Haptic Phonemes: Basic Building Blocks of Haptic Communication." in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006. view