Steve Yohanan

PhD Student

Steve received his PhD from SPIN in 2012, as the first architect of the Haptic Creature project.

Year Departed

2012

Publications

Yohanan, S., "The Haptic Creature: Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch," Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012.
Yohanan, S., Chan, M., Hopkins, J., Sun, H., and MacLean, K.E., “Hapticat: Exploration of Affective Touch,” in Proc. of 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), Trento, Italy, pp. 244-251, 2005.
Yohanan, S., and MacLean K.E., “The Haptic Creature Project: Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch,” in Proc. of The Reign of Katz and Dogz, 2nd AISB Symp on the Role of Virtual Creatures in a Computerised Society, Aberdeen, UK, 2008.
Yohanan, S., Hall, JP., MacLean, KE., Croft, E., Van der Loos, M., Baumann, M., Chang, J., Nielsen, D., and Zoghbi, S. “Affect-Driven Emotional Expression with the Haptic Creature,” in UIST '09 - Demonstrations Victoria, Canada: ACM Press, 2009.
Chang, J., MacLean, K. E., and Yohanan, S., “Gesture Recognition in the Haptic Creature,” in Proc. of EuroHaptics, Amsterdam, pp. 385-391, 2010.
Yohanan, S., MacLean, K. E. (2009). "A Tool to Study Affect Touch: Goals & Design of the Haptic Creature." In Proc of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Works in Progress, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, pp 4153-4158, April 2009
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), Vol 4, No 2, April 2012, pp. 163-180.
Yohanan, S. and MacLean, K. E. (2011). “Design and Assessment of the Haptic Creature’s Affect Display.” Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '11), pp. 473-480, March, 2011. Best Paper Award.