Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Hayward, V., MacLean, K. E. (2007). "Do It Yourself Haptics, Part I." IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 14, no. 4, pages 88-104, December 2007. view
Pan, M., "An Exploration of a Haptic Affect Loop through Use Cases," M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. Supervised: Croft, MacLean view
Schneider, O. and MacLean, K. E., “Workshop on Haptic Experience Design,” in World Haptics Conference, Evanston, IL, 2015. view
Minaker G., Schneider O., Davis R., MacLean KE. "HandsOn: Enabling Embodied, Creative STEM e-learning with Programming-Free Force Feedback." International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications 2016 Jul 4 (pp. 427-437). Springer International Publishing. (Best Poster Award) view
Bucci P., Cang, L., Chun, M., Marino, D., Schneider, O., Seifi, H., and MacLean KE. "CuddleBits: an iterative prototyping platform for complex haptic display." International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications - Demo, London UK, July 2016. view
Cang, X.L., "Towards an Emotionally Communicative Robot: Feature Analysis for Multimodal Support of Affective Touch Recognition.", M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. view
Schneider, O., "Haptic Experience Design: Tools, Techniques, and Process.", PhD. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. view
Schneider, O., MacLean, K., Swindells, C., Booth, K. "Haptic Experience Design: What Hapticians Do and Where They Need Help." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Special Edition on Multisensory HCI. 2017. view
Clark, B., Schneider, O., MacLean, K., Tan, H.Z. "Predictable and Distinguishable Morphing of Vibrotactile Rhythm." World Haptics Conference. 2017. view
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 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3681-3692. view
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. view
Gerofsky, S., Savage, M., and MacLean, K.E., "Being the Graph: Using Haptic and Kinesthetic Interfaces to engage students learning about functions." view
Cang, X. L., Dattoli, M. C., & MacLean, K. E. "The DIY Designer’s Sidekick: A Role for Robots in Personal Manufacturing." In IROS 2017 Workshop: Human-Robot Interaction in Collaborative Manufacturing Environments (HRI-CME) view
Seifi, H., & MacLean, K. E. (2017). "Exploiting haptic facets: Users' sensemaking schemas as a path to design and personalization of experience." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 107, 38-61. view
Kianzad, S. & MacLean, K. E. "Harold’s Purple Crayon Rendered in Haptics: Large-Stroke, Handheld Ballpoint Force Feedback." In Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), 2018 IEEE (pp. 106-111). view
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." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (p. 509). ACM. view
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 view
Ustek, D., "Designing zooming interactions for small displays with a proximity sensor." M.Sc. Thesis. University of British Columbia. 2017. view
Davis, R., Martina-Ortiz, M., Schneider, O., MacLean, K. E., Okamura, A. M., Blikstein, P. "The Haptic Bridge: Towards a Theory of Haptic-Supported Learning." In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC'17). Stanford, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 51-60. view
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. view
Seifi, H., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecher, K. J., and Park, G., “Haptipedia: An Expert-Sourced Interactive Device Visualization for Haptic Designers,” In Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), Works in Progress: IEEE, 2018. view
MacLean, K. E., Schneider, O., and Seifi, H., “Multisensory Haptic interactions: Understanding the Sense and Designing for it,” in Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, vol. 1, S. Oviatt, B. Schuller, P. Cohen, and A. Krueger, Eds.: ACM Books, Morgan Claypool, 2017, pp. 97-142. view
Yuna Watanabe, Xi Laura Cang, Rúbia Reis Guerra, Devyani Mclaren, Preeti Vyas, Jun Rekimoto, and Karon E Maclean. 2023. "Demonstrating Virtual Teamwork with Synchrobots: A Robot-Mediated Approach to Improving Connectedness." In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 441, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583896 view
Kryklywy, J. H., Vyas, P., Maclean, K. E., & Todd, R. M. (2023). "Characterizing affiliative touch in humans and its role in advancing haptic design" Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1528(1), 29-41. view
Elizabeth Reid "How teens can build social connection through an emotionally supportive robot swarm" The University of British Columbia 2023 view
Vincent Levesque, Karon E MacLean, Oliver Schneider, Jeremy R. Cooperstock, Pourang Irana, Pascal Fortin, Antoine Weill-Duflos "Exploring Haptic and Multimodal UX Design Through Distributed CanHap501 Projects" Demo at Worldhaptics, 2023 view
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 view
Boerner KE, Desai U, MacLean KE, Munzner T, Foladare H, Gill J, Oberlander TF. "Data visualization as an intervention for pediatric chronic pain: a pilot feasibility study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial." Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2022 Oct 3;8(1):223. doi: 10.1186/s40814-022-01170-5. PMID: 36192779; PMCID: PMC9527132. view
Boerner KE, Desai U, Luu J, MacLean KE, Munzner T, Foladare H, Shen J, Gill J, Oberlander TF. “Making Data the Drug: A Pragmatic Pilot Feasibility Randomized Crossover Trial of Data Visualization as an Intervention for Pediatric Chronic Pain." Children. 2023; 10(8):1355. https://doi.org/10.3390/children100813 view
Cang XL, Israr A, MacLean KE. "When is a Haptic Message Like an Inside Joke? Digitally Mediated Emotive Communication Builds on Shared History." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2023 Feb 13;14(1):732-46. view