Paul Bucci | Sensory Perception & Interaction, Research Group

Paul Bucci

Paul studies emotional interaction with robots. He holds a BA in Visual Arts, and both a BSc and MSc in Computer Science.

Personal Homepage

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pbucci

Year Departed

2020

SPIN Publications

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
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.
Cang, X.L., Bucci, P., Rantala, J., & MacLean, K.E. "Discerning Affect from Touch and Gaze During Interaction with a Robot Pet" in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2021. pp 1-15.
Shakeri, H., Elbaggari, H., Bucci, P., Xiao, R., and MacLean, K.E.. “FoldMold: Automating Papercraft for Fast DIY Casting of Scalable Curved Shapes,” in Proc. Graphics Interface, 2021, pp. 10.
Bucci, P.H., Cang, X.L., Mah, H., Rodgers, L., MacLean, K.E. “Real Emotions Don’t Stand Still: Toward Ecologically Viable Representation of Affective Interaction,” Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces, 2019.
Zhang, L., Bucci, P., Cang, X. L., & MacLean, K. E., "Infusing CuddleBits with Emotion: Build your Own and Tell Us About it," In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference Demonstration on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (p. D408) ACM.
Bucci, P., "Building believable robots : an exploration of how to make simple robots look, move, and feel right." M.Sc. Thesis. University of British Columbia, 2017
Bucci, P., Zhang, L., Cang, X. L., & MacLean, K. E. "Is it Happy? Behavioural and Narrative Frame Complexity Impact Perceptions of a Simple Furry Robot's Emotions." CHI, 2018.
Marino, D., Bucci, P., Schneider, O. S., MacLean, K. E. "Voodle: Vocal Doodling to Sketch Affective Robot Motion." In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.
Bucci, P., Cang, X. L., Valair, A., Marino, D., Tseng, L., Jung, M., Rantala, J., Schneider, O. S., MacLean, K. E. "Sketching CuddleBits: Coupled Prototyping of Body and Behaviour for an Affective Robot Pet." In CHI 2017. pp. 3681-3692.
Bucci P., Cang, L., Chun, M., Marino, D., Schneider, O., Seifi, H., and MacLean KE. "CuddleBits: an iterative prototyping platform for complex haptic display." Int'l Conf on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Application - Demo London UK 2016
Cang, L., Bucci, P., and MacLean, K.E., “CuddleBits: Friendly, Low-cost Furballs that Respond to Your Touch,” in Proc. of ACM Int'l Conf on Multimomdal Interaction (ICMI) - Demo, Seattle, WA, pp. 2, 2015.
Cang, X. L., Bucci, P., Strang, Allen, J., MacLean, K. E., and Liu, H. Y. S., "Different Strokes and Different Folks: Economical Dynamic Surface Sensing and Affect-Related Touch Recognition." In Proc of ICMI '15, Seattle, WA, USA, Nov 2015, pp. 147-154.