Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

John is a 3rd Year Undergraduate Student pursuing an Honours Degree in Computer Science. He will be going for an 8-month internship with Trulioo beginning September 2018.

At SPIN, John is working on the Haptipedia project with Dr. Hasti Seifi on the development of an API to cross-reference and extract metadata from haptic device research papers.

Qian's research interest lies in the intersection of the machine learning, HCI, and neuroscience. She's generally interested in examining the brain, machine intelligence, and the possibility of bridging the two areas. At SPIN, she focuses mainly on studying emotion response, its labeling and classification from EEG data. In her spare time, she enjoys learning new languages (the newest one being ASL), biking, and occasionally bang on a piano keyboard.

Drishtti Rawat is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor in Behavioural Neuroscience (B.Sc.) at UBC. She is curious about brains from the cognitive and biological perspectives to understand behaviour.

She is currently working with Laura Cang and Paul Bucci on the Interactive Affect Models via Video Games study to create a model of emotional transitions using EEG.

Tyler is a graduating student from UBC in Cognitive Systems and Philosophy, interested in the topics of cognitive modelling, artificial intelligence and human perception and action.

Current projects include:

EEG emotion modelling: Processing and analyzing EEG data to classify participant’s emotional states.

Gelly sensor in use: Running participants through tiral studies, analyzing results from experiments, asisting wrinting paper. 

In August 2018 Tyler will begin his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York and will work on research in human perception and cognitive modelling.

Hailey Mah is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Media Studies, with a minor in Computer Science. Across her work, she is interested in how technologically mediated experiences affect the ways we communicate, emote, and relate to the world. 

She is currently working on a project with Laura Cang and Paul Bucci to create a model of emotional transitions using EEG. 

Anushka Agrawal is a recent UBC graduate with a BSc in Computer Science. She came into the SPIN Lab as a volunteer with a keen interest in learning about research in Human Computer Interaction, and developed a strong interest in emotion, cognition, and multimodal interaction. She's currently working with Paul Bucci and Laura Cang on designing and running a study to create an emotion model of a person in real time using EEG and machine learning. 

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.