My name is Steve Yohanan. I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. My supervisor is Dr. Karon MacLean and, consequently, I am a member of her SPIN Research Group. My research is the Haptic Creature project.
| office | ICICS x508 (MUX Lab) |
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| yohanan [at] cs [dot] ubc [dot] ca | |
| web | http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~yohanan/ |
| phone | +1 604-827-3982 (x7-3982) |
| fax | +1 604-822-5485 |
| post | Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 201-2366 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada |
My personal homepage.
My SPIN Research Group homepage.
Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean. The Haptic Creature Project: Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch. In Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on the Reign of Catz & Dogs: The Second AISB Symposium on the Role of Virtual Creatures in a Computerised Society, volume 1, pages 7-11, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, April, 2008.
Steve Yohanan, Mavis Chan, Jeremy Hopkins, Haibo Sun, and Karon MacLean. Hapticat: Exploration of Affective Touch. In ICMI '05: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pages 222-229, Trento, Italy, 2005.
Sidney Fels, Steve Yohanan, Sachiyo Takahashi, Yuichiro Kinoshita, Kenji Funahashi, Yasufumi Takama, and Grace Tzu-Pei Chen. User Experiences with a Virtual Swimming Interface Exhibit. In ICEC 2005: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Sanda, Japan, 2005.
Sidney Fels, Yuichiro Kinoshita, Tzu-Pei Grace Chen, Yasufumi Takama, Steve Yohanan, Sachiyo Takahasi, Ashley Gadd, and Kenji Funahashi. Swimming Across the Pacific: A VR Swimming Interface. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, volume 25, number 1, pages 24-31, 2005.
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Forbes.com. Tech For Your Pet. 23 July 2009.
Sheffield Live!. Sounds of Science: Radio Interview (excerpt). 30 May 2008. [Complete Podcast]
terr.com.br. Robô de Pelúcia Responde ao Toque Humano. 30 May 2008.
CNN.com. Creepy or Cute? Robot Creature to Study Touch. 29 May 2008.
Nature. Robobunny*. 29 May 2008 (Volume 453 Number 7195). [PDF*]
Gizmodo. Haptic Bunny Makes Your Heart Go Hippity-Hop. 23 May 2008.
New Scientist. Strokable Robot Rabbit Talks with Touch. 22 May 2008 (Tech section online).
The Vancouver Sun. Reach Out and Touch Someone. 9 December 2006 (Science section).
Synergy: The Journal of UBC Science. Enhancing Haptics: Tactile Wizardry Advances Technology ("If It Only Had a Heart"). 2006 (Issue 02).
The Ubyssey. Touchy-Feely Technology Makes a Comeback: ‘Pillow-Creature’ May Help Illuminate the Power of Interactive Touch. 25 October 2005.
UBC Reports. The Purr-fect Touch: Robotic “Cat” Helps Us Understand That “Warm, Fuzzy” Feeling. 6 October 2005 (Volume 51 Number 10). [PDF]