Sensory Perception & Interaction, Research Group

At SPIN, we are designing to apply affective haptic technologies in practice for applications such as facilitating emotion regulation, supporting synchronization during remote work, and many more. 

Investigating the design process of expressive affective haptic robot behaviors 

Participatory design of Emotionally Supportive Swarm Robots for teenagers 

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

The CuddleBot allows us to use an animal model of therapy to examine how touch interactions influence stress and anxiety mitigation.

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.

People and robots communicating and collaborating in close proximity on manufacturing tasks.