Xi Laura Cang

schoolUniversity of British Columbiabar_chart#7616 Global Rank

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What is Affective Touch Made Of? A Soft Capacitive Sensor Array Reveals the Interplay between Shear, Normal Stress and Individuality

Humans physically express emotion by modulating parameters that register on mammalian skin mechanoreceptors, but are unavailable in current touch-sensing technology. Greater sensory richness combined with data on affect-expression composition is a prerequisite to estimating affect from touch, with applications inclu…

CHI '183rd AuthorFull-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +1

Is it Happy? Behavioural and Narrative Frame Complexity Impact Perceptions of a Simple Furry Robot’s Emotions

Critical to social human-robot interaction is a robot's emotional richness, expressed within the parameters of its physical display. While emotion arousal is straightforward to convey, human valence (positivity) evaluations are famously ambiguous, whether we are assessing other humans or a robot. Imagine someone breat…

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