Devyani McLaren

Proud to present our work at #UIST2024 on soft flexible shear stress sensor array + gesture recognition for affective touch analysis (doi.org/10.1145/365477…) in Pittsburgh 🇺🇸! Also a joy to be on the photographer team 📸. Thanks to my mentors and colleagues @UBC_CS & @ECEUBC

3 years since @jsonx99, myself and many others began this project. We finally presented to #UIST2024 I’m very excited to continue this work and model emotions from shear and pressure data captured by our novel sensor. #affective #haptics #softsensors #HRI

Can you spot me? (Hint: I can’t even spot myself but I’m somewhere in the back right)

@plopesresearch @preetivyas_ @jsonx99 Thanks Pedro! I did some work using TMS for muscle stimulation measurement for stroke patient research so your work is always very interesting to me :)

@preetivyas_ @dev_mclaren @jsonx99 Cool talk and amazing hardware

Check out our work on ShearSense at #UIST2024 We demonstrate interplay between shear, pressure, and individuality evaluating affective touch on a soft capacitive sensor. Not at UIST this year but my amazing colleagues are. Go say hi to @dev_mclaren @jsonx99 ✨#affectivehaptics

@_yudaitanaka Great seeing your demo today Yudai! You may not remember me, but I believe we both met when you visited UBC a couple of years ago. I'll be presenting at UIST as well in the bodily signals session!

Can a smartwatch move your fingers? In our #UIST2024 paper with 🎖️honorable mention award, we engineered the smartwatch that can actuate your fingers & render force via electrical muscle stimulation. See full video: youtu.be/20OZ2aFdwXc?si… I hope you could catch Aki's (@Akiphvmi) fantastic talk. Please also come try our demo at 6PM today at August Wilson African American Cultural Center! Authors: Akifumi Takahashi @Akiphvmi, Yudai Tanaka @_yudaitanaka, Archit Tamhane, Alan Shen, Shan-Yuan Teng @tengshanyuan, and Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch

Thanks to everyone who saw our demo at #UIST2024. Come see @jsonx99 and myself present in Allegheny 1, Bodily Signals, and learn what affective touch is made of! 11:15pm, Tues Oct 14th. #UISTChallenge

@ranzhoubot Absolutely, let's connect :) I'll reach out when I'm back in Vancouver.

@dev_mclaren Thank you, Devyani! I wish I could have attended UIST in person this year 🙈. We should definitely connect and maybe meet online later. Good luck for your talk and demo! The work looks super cool!! 🤩

Go! Robots!🤖🤖🤖

we got some holiday vibes going with our cuddle bots aka CHORAs! #affectivehaptics #spinlab @UBC_CS

@UBC @UBC_CS If you are a researcher in #affectivehaptics #affectivesensing designing and building #softtouchsensors or are interested in getting into the field, the paper has so many resources! Go check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

@preetivyas_ @jsonx99 Come say hi at our demo! First floor of the August Wilson African American Center.

All setup! Check out our #UIST2024 demo and learn what our sensor has taught us about affective touch. We’re on the first floor (by the food) so grab a snack and come chat! 🥨 #UBC @UBC_CS #affectivehaptics #haptics

@LMcUnderwood @ACMUIST @SCC_Lancaster @LancasterUni @MSFTResearch @FP_Centre Would love to chat more actually. This is quite related to my PhD thesis - UBC. I’ll be demoing our paper later today: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Our beautiful poster is up in room 3, the far right of the ballroom. Come chat to us (Lancaster university and Microsoft research, the dream team ❤️) during the break! Our research is on CS education @ACMUIST #UIST2024 @SCC_Lancaster @LancasterUni @MSFTResearch @FP_Centre

Hey hey! I'll be at #UIST2024 to present 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗔𝗥 ☺️ CookAR is an AI-powered wearable AR prototype that augments kitchen tool affordances in near real-time for low vision users, enabling safer and more efficient tool interactions. (1/6)

Hello @ACMUIST ! Come check out our demo (tonight) and paper presentation (Tues) to see what our novel shear sensor has already told us about affective touch. Presenting alongside @jsonx99 #UIST2024 youtu.be/rSG6I3IIdXU?si…

Tomorrow, the @_RIOgroup_ Seminar Series prepares itself for a Canadian Invasion (cf. @djwright561, 2021) with 3 talks from Jack Solomon a PhD student @DalLBRF, Beverley Larssen a PhD student @UBC, and Devyani McLaren a PhD student @UBC_BrainLab. Talks start at 2:30pm UK time!