Sensory Perception & Interaction, Research Group

The TCO dataset (n=132) captures real-world touchable comfort object practices across a diverse adult sample. It combines quantitative ratings across a rich, multidimensional design space (e.g., object characteristics, use contexts, meanings, and attachment) with qualitative reflections describing how and why objects are used for emotion regulation. The dataset supports exploratory analysis, user profiling, and design reasoning around affective touch, everyday comfort practices, and the integration of haptics into personal objects.

A multimodal tactile dataset of affective touch gestures captured with a 3‑axis force sensor array. Sixteen participants performed 9 affective touch gestures (circular stroke, constant touch, heavy pat, back & forth rub, poke, isometric rub, tickle, twist, wide pinch) on a shear‑force sensor pad with 11×11 taxels at 43 Hz, yielding 7,315 usable trials (~51 trials per gesture per participant, ~2 seconds each).

Haptipedia is a comprehensive library of haptic devices annotated with designer-relevant metadata, then accessed through an interactive visualization to assist designers in finding relevant design examples.

This dataset is a collection of 110 coded papers from the last decade on the topic of Affective Haptic Systems Design (AHSD)

We present our FEEL (Force, EEG and Emotion-Labelled) dataset, a collection of brain activity, keypress force data, labeled with self-reported emotion during tense videogame play (N=16); open-sourced for community exploration and available for download here.

Social touch gestures performed on a variety of different substrate combinations and collected using a custom-DIY fabric sensor. Originally made available as part of the ICMI '15 Grand Challenge and currently published at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

Dataset pertaining to an algorithm for accurate real-time cadence estimation using accelerometers found in common smartphones. Available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spin/data/

This repository contains all 120 vibrations for the VibViz library including their (.wav) files, their aggregated ratings and tags, and the MDS dimensions for the Sensation, Emotion, Metaphor, and Usage Facets. Check it out at: https://github.com/hastiseifi/VibViz-Dataset