Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Levesque, V., Oram, L., MacLean, K. E., Colgate, J. E., and Peshkin, M. (2011). “Restoring Physicality to Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction.” In IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). Las Vegas: IEEE, 2 pages, 2011. view
MacLean, K. E. (2008). "Using Haptics for Mobile Information Display", in Proceedings of Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2008), Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, pages 175-179, Sydney, Australia, May 2008. view
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. view
Gleeson, B., MacLean, K. E., Haddadi, A., Croft, E., and Alcazar, J. “Gestures for Industry: Intuitive Human-Robot Communication from Human Observation,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '13), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 349-356 2013. view
Pedrosa, R., "Perception-based design: including haptic feedback in expressive music interfaces", M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. view
MacLean, K. E., Roderick, J. B. (1999). "Smart Tangible Displays in the Everyday World: a Haptic Door Knob." The IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM'99), September 1999, Atlanta, GA. Interval Research Corp TR# 1999-048. view
Beamish, T., MacLean, K., Fels, S. (2004). "Manipulating Music: Multimodal Interaction for DJs." in Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI (CHI 2004), Vienna, Austria, 2004. view
Luk, J., Pasquero, J., Little, S., MacLean, K., Hayward, V., Levesque, V. (2006). "Haptics as a Solution for Mobile Interaction Challenges: Initial Design Using a Handheld Tactile Display Prototype." in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '06, Montreal, Canada, April 2006. (Best of CHI award). view
Schneider, O., "Haptic Experience Design: Tools, Techniques, and Process.", PhD. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. view
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, (pp. 295-308). Springer, Cham. view
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
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