The Haptic Creature

Publications

The following publications were an outcome of my Haptic Creature research project.

• Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean (2012). The Role of Affective Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Intent and Expectations in Touching the Haptic Creature. In International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO) – Special Issue on Expectations, Intentions & Actions, volume 4, number 2, pages 163-180, April 2012. [doi: 10.1007/s12369-011-0126-7]
• Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean (2011). Design and Assessment of the Haptic Creature’s Affect Display. In HRI ’11: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pages 473-480, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 6-9 2011. (Best Paper Award: “Most Interesting Interaction”). [doi: 10.1145/1957656.1957820]
• Jonathan Chang, Karon MacLean, and Steve Yohanan (2010). Gesture Recognition in the Haptic Creature. In Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2010, pages 385-391, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 8-10 2010. [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_56]
• Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean (2009). A Tool to Study Affective Touch: Goals & Design of the Haptic Creature. In CHI ’09: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 4153-4158, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 4-9 2009. [doi:10.1145/1520340.1520632]
• Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean (2008). The Haptic Creature Project: Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch. In Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on the Reign of Catz & Dogz: The Second AISB Symposium on the Role of Virtual Creatures in a Computerised Society, volume 1, pages 7-11, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, April 1-4 2008. (Best Paper Nominee).
• Steve Yohanan, Mavis Chan, Jeremy Hopkins, Haibo Sun, and Karon MacLean (2005). Hapticat: Exploration of Affective Touch. In ICMI ’05: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pages 222-229, Trento, Italy, October 4-6 2005. [doi:10.1145/1088463.1088502]