Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Seifi, H. (2017). "Personalizing Haptics: From Individuals‚ from Sense-Making Schemas to End-User Haptic Tools." Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. view
Shakeri, H. (2020). "Rapid Mold Prototyping: Creating Complex 3D Castables From 2D Cuts." M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. view
Ranger, M., Albert, A., MacLean, K.E., & Holsti, L. "Cerebral hemodynamic response to a therapeutic bed for procedural pain management in preterm infants in the NICU: a randomized controlled trial," Pain Reports, e890, 1-9, 2021. view
Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., & MacLean, K. E. (2021). "How do expert hapticians evaluate grounded force-feedback devices?" WorldHaptics Conference, Works in Progress, 4 pgs. view
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." In2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2022 Oct 18 (pp. 1-8). IEEE. 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
Preeti Vyas, Unma Mayur Desai, Karin Yamakawa, and Karon Maclean. "A Descriptive Analysis of a Formative Decade of Research in Affective Haptic System Design", in Proc. 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 229, 1–23. view
Katayoun Sepehri, Liisa Holsti, Sara Niasati, Vita Chan, and Karon E Maclean. "Beyond the Bulging Binder: Family-Centered Design of a Digital Health Information Management System for Caregivers of Children Living with Health Complexity", in Proc. 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 487, 1–19. 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
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
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
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
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
Elizabeth Reid "How teens can build social connection through an emotionally supportive robot swarm" The University of British Columbia 2023 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
Bereket Guta, Tommy Nguyen, Jano Fu "Feel the Shift" Demo at IEEE World Haptics 2023 view
Elbaggari, Hannah Rachel Yuen "What does it take to be a haptician? : How community can empower designers and expose the many ways of being an expert." Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver view
Wu, M., Schneider, O., Karuei, I., Leong, L., & MacLean, K. E. (2014). Introducing GaitLib: A Library for Real-time Gait Analysis in Smartphones. Proceedings of the MobileHCI. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0050993. view
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. 2023 Sep 4. view
Reis Guerra, R. (2022). "Feeling (key)pressed : comparing the ways in which force and self-reports reveal emotion" (T). University of British Columbia. view
Desai, U. M. (2022). "myWeekInSight : visualizing personal data for chronic pain management through youth-centered design" (T). University of British Columbia. view
Fartook, O., MacLean, K. E., Oron-Gilad, T., & Cauchard, J. R. "Expanding the Interaction Repertoire of a Social Drone: Physically Expressive Possibilities of a Perched BiRDe" International Journal of Social Robotics, 16, 257-280, 2024. view
Vyas, P., Uusberg, A., & MacLean, K. E. "Towards a Model for Haptics as a Co-Regulation Adjunct in Cognitive Reappraisal". Proc. Eurohaptics, 1-12, 2024. view
Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., Ballardini, G., Taghizadeh, Z., Schulz, A., MacLean, K. E., & Kuchenbecker, K. J. "Quantifying Haptic Quality: External Measurements Match Expert Assessments of Stiffness Rendering Across Devices" Proc. EuroHaptics Works-in-Progress, 1-2, 2024. view
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 Science and Engineering (Poster), 1, 2024. view
Yin, X., Gao, J., Guerra, R. R., Morton, C., McLaren, D., Vyas, P., Cang, X. L., Ishizaki, R., Madden, J., & MacLean, K. E. "ShearSense: A soft flexible sensing array for capturing shear and normal stress in affective touch". Proc. Eurohaptics - Hands-On Demonstration view
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 view
Ruan, R., Adibi, A., & MacLean, K. E. "Navigating Three VITal Interdependent Qualities for Successful Cross-Community Collaboration" Proc. ACM CHI Workshop on HCI/Health Research, Hawaii, 7, 2024. view