Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.
Latest papers
Cerebral hemodynamic response to a therapeutic bed for procedural pain management in preterm infants in the NICU: a randomized controlled trial.
Pain reports · 2021
Pilot Testing a Robot for Reducing Pain in Hospitalized Preterm Infants.
OTJR : occupation, participation and health · 2019
Calmer: a robot for managing acute pain effectively in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Pain reports · 2019
Latest funding
- $62,000
Making Affective Touch a Reality in a Digital World
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $250,000
Designing for Subversion: Finding a Framework for Embodying Teen Social Interaction in a Robot Swarm
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $750,000
Interactive Human Systems Design
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Cerebral hemodynamic response to a therapeutic bed for procedural pain management in preterm infants in the NICU: a randomized controlled trial.
Ranger M, Albert A, MacLean K, Holsti L
Pilot Testing a Robot for Reducing Pain in Hospitalized Preterm Infants.
Williams N, MacLean K, Guan L, Collet JP, Holsti L
Calmer: a robot for managing acute pain effectively in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Holsti L, MacLean K, Oberlander T, Synnes A, Brant R
Making Affective Touch a Reality in a Digital World
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Keywords: haptics; human-computer interaction; affective computing; social touch; physical human-robot interaction; emotion models; cognitive reappraisal; developing communities of practice; haptic experience design; haptic training
Designing for Subversion: Finding a Framework for Embodying Teen Social Interaction in a Robot Swarm
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Keywords: human robot interaction teen digital communication haptics swarm robotics mental health social group dynamics
Interactive Human Systems Design
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Keywords: Haptics; human-robot interaction; interaction design; human-computer interaction; affective computing; attention; multimodal psychophysics; conceptual learning; anxiety therapy; family-centered teams
Making Haptic Interaction Design Accessible: Models, Tools and Community
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Making Haptic Interaction Design Accessible: Models, Tools and Community
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Electroactive polymers applied to haptics
Principal investigators: Madden, John
Foundations and Applications of Affective Touch
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Calmer: A Novel Approach for Treating Infant Pain
Principal investigators: Holsti, Liisa
Keywords: Nicu; Pain; Premature Infant; Randomized Controlled Trial
Foundations and Applications of Affective Touch
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
CHARM: Collaborative, Human-focused, Assistive Robotics for Manufacturing
Principal investigators: Croft, Elizabeth
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Liisa Holsti and Manon Ranger: 5 shared papers
- Liisa Holsti and Karon MacLean: 3 shared papers
- Liisa Holsti and Timothy Oberlander: 1 shared paper
- Timothy Oberlander and Karon MacLean: 1 shared paper
- Manon Ranger and Karon MacLean: 1 shared paper
- Occupational Therapy
- MacIsaac School of Nursing
- Pediatrics
- Other
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