gallery
a collection of photos from the lab, conferences, runs, hikes, art, crochet, poetry, and other life stuffs.
Vancouver Sun Run 2026! Did it again! Apr 2026
Finisher medal at the UBC Great Trek Half Marathon 2025 (21.1 km wohooo!). Oct 2025.
Volunteering @ Vancouver Folk Fest. Jul 2024.
Volunteering @ Vancouver Folk Fest Quintessential. Jul 2025.
Debugging session at the office: Testing three types of physiological sensor suite for performance. Nov 2024.
Had lots of fun making this pastel scarf. Dec 2024.
Happraisal study setup, a zoomorphic CHORA robot and sensor setup in the SPIN Living Lab. Jun 2024
Presenting "Towards a Model for Haptics as a Co-Regulation Adjunct" at EuroHaptics, Lille, France. Jun 2024.
Pilot testing the CHORA prototype. May 2024.
A batch of CHORA prototypes (without fur cover) ready for studies and demos. May 2024.
EuroHaptics Best Paper nominees our work in the top 5 of 81 accepted papers. A great birthday present! Jul 2024
Featured in the EuroHaptics closing presentation. Jul 2024
ShearSense Demo at EuroHaptics. Jul 2024
Vancouver Sun Run 2023. First 10K! Apr 2023.
Presenting at ACM CHI, Hamburg, Germany. Mar 2023
Presenting early conceptual ideas of Happraisal at the CRA-IDEALS, Honululu, Hawaii. Mar 2023
Open mic night at Trees Organic Cafe, Vancouver. Mar 2023.
Volunteering @ Vancouver Folk Fest with Sadaf. Jul 2023
Wrapping up the last Happraisal study. Sep 2025.
Catching Aspen trees in peak fall. Colorado. Sep 2025.
Went to meet the Big Cedar in Lynn Canyon Provincial Park. Feb 2024.
Prof. MacLean presenting our Cross-cutting challenge at Haptics Symposium. Long Beach, CA. Apr 2024.
Putting things into perspective at Lindeman Lake, BC. Jul 2023.
Panorama Ridge, Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC. A solid 1600m of elevation gain and 30km of fun steps with a great crew. Aug 2023.
Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom (AA-RPC) Workshop. Oct 2025.
All smiles in the last few kms of my first half-marathon. Crossing Main Mall at UBC. Oct 2025.
Gathering ideas at the Joan Miró Foundation. Barcelona, Spain. Apr 2023.
Pre-CHI Via Ferrata made me pursue all kinds of emotion regulation. Solid field work with Suhita. Girona, Spain. Apr 2023.
CHI volunteers! Hamburg, Germany. Apr 2023.
Forest Echoes Music Festival. Chilliwack, BC. Jun 2025.
Birthday long-ride and meditation retreat at Bowen Island, BC. Jul 2025.
Ready for HapticHIVE. Hackathon, UBC-V and UBC-O. Kelowna, BC. May 2023.
Three decades. Made during UBC CS Art Circle. Jul 2025.
First professional art class. UBC CS Art Circle. Mar 2024.
Our very first strawberry harvest. Aug 2025.
Sunset walk with Xincheng. Wreck Beach, UBC. Aug 2025.
Spotted Kwanzan and Yoshino cherry blossoms on a single tree during a run and then solved the mystery!. Vancouver, BC. Apr 2026.
On an island within a lake, on another island, learning how cinnamon sticks are made. Unawatuna, Sri Lanka. Dec 2025.
Notes from Camille Pissaro at Denver Art Museum. Nov 2025.
Not stuck, just ready for more space. Jul 2025.
A cool rock in Pacific Spirit Park and check-in with Milo. May 2025.
Sun Run Fun with CSGSA. Apr 2025.
Still life. UBC CS Art Circle. Mar 2025.
What a great crew to learn about teaching and gather feedback (on paper flowers). Great weekend! Instructional Skill Workshop, UBC. Mar 2025.
Flower motifs on arrows. Udaipur, India. Dec 2024.
Tree of life, Fishes in a pond (Kamal Talai), and other madhubani art in Shilipigram, Rajasthan, India. Dec 2024.