Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

Designed as a bland, unobtrusive appliance, Calmer is a bed for premature infants that replicates mothers' breathing movement and heart rate. 

Investigating the challenges involved in haptic experience design from hapticians involved in industry to novices starting out in the field. We are aiming to create effective solutions such as tools to help hapticians at different stages in the haptic design process. 

We develop machine learning models of affect using touch and biometrics (such as EEG signal, skin conductance, heart rate, etc) to support affective interaction with companion robots for health applications.

Bits are one-degree-of-freedom actuated sketches which we use as a design tool to explore rendering of emotion through physical and visual motion.