Bereket Guta

Bereket is an Engineering Physics student at UBC completing his last year of studies. He is interested in research that lies at the intersection of machine learning and robotics with applications to assistive technology. At SPIN, he is working as a part of the emotional modelling group under the supervision of Laura Cang and Rubia Guerra.

Personal Homepage

https://bguta.github.io/

SPIN Publications

Vyas, P., Guta, B., Zhou, T., Uusberg, A., & MacLean, K. E. "Come Co-regulate with CHORA: A Comforting, Haptic Co-regulating Adjunct for Facilitating Emotion Regulation". Proc. Eurohaptics - Hands-On Demonstration
Vyas, P., Bao, A., Guerra, R. R., Guta, B., Davis, K., Uusberg, A., & MacLean, K. E. "The Role of Softness in Touchable Comfort Objects, from a Diversity of Toucher Perspectives" Proc. Haptics Symposium Cross-Cutting Challenges: Frontiers of Softness in S
Cang XL, Guerra RR, Guta B, Bucci P, Rodgers L, Mah H, Feng Q, Agrawal A, MacLean K. "FEELing (key)Pressed: Implicit Touch Pressure Bests Brain Activity in Modelling Emotion Dynamics in the Space Between Stressed and Relaxed." IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Feel the Shift
Nao Rojas, Daniel Chen, Rubia Reis Guerra, X. Laura Cang, Bereket Guta, Karon E. MacLean "A Tool for Capturing Customized Multi-Pass Emotion Self-Reports while Touching and Telling" Demo at Worldhaptics, 2023
Cang XL, Guerra RR, Bucci P, Guta B, MacLean K, Rodgers L, Mah H, Hsu S, Feng Q, Zhang C, Agrawal A. "Choose or Fuse: Enriching Data Views with Multi-label Emotion Dynamics." In 2022 10th Int'l Conf ACII, IEEE.