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Employee Perceptions of Electronic Performance Monitoring: A Multi-Level Analysis
( Springer , 2023 , Conference Paper)Research on Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM) has taken an integrative perspective toward employee perception of the technology without consideration of the effect of organizational culture and specifically subcultures ... -
Design of immersive virtual reality system to improve communication skills in individuals with autism
( Kassel University Press GmbH , 2017 , Article)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regularly experience situations in which they need to give answers but do not know how to respond; for example, questions related to everyday life activities that are asked ... -
Immersive virtual reality in improving communication skills in children with Autism
( International Association of Online Engineering , 2017 , Article)Individuals in the Autism Spectrum often encounter situations where they have to respond to questions and situations that they do not know how to respond to, such as, questions asked by strangers including ones related to ... -
A study on the design and effectiveness of tactile feedback in sriving simulator
( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)Driving simulations are widely used to send navigational and warning information to help drivers navigate safely. The traditional approaches are to use visual and auditory channels which can cause sensory overloading. ... -
Incorporating haptic and olfactory into surgical simulation
( IEEE Computer Society , 2013 , Conference Paper)Recently, surgical simulation is a widely used method to train surgeons on specific surgeries due to the fact that it helps reducing surgical errors. Available surgical simulations lack realism since they only incorporate ... -
Incorporating olfactory into a multi-modal surgical simulation
( Maruzen Co., Ltd. , 2014 , Article)This paper proposes a novel multimodal interactive surgical simulator that incorporates haptic, olfactory, as well as traditional vision feedback. A scent diffuser was developed to produce odors when errors occur. Haptic ... -
Spiroraslaser: An interactive visual art system using hybrid raster-laser projection
( Inderscience Publishers , 2011 , Article)This paper explores the possibility of generating visual imagery in a highly interactive environment on the basis of hand position and acceleration. We present a new display method called hybrid raster-laser projection for ... -
Augmented reality flavor: cross-modal mapping across gustation, olfaction, and vision
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Gustatory display research is still in its infancy despite being one of the essential everyday senses that human practice while eating and drinking. Indeed, the most important and frequent tasks that our brain deals with ... -
A Cost-Effective Immersive Telexistence Platform for Generic Telemanipulation Tasks
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)Robots are expected to become an essential part in tackling the global corona virus pandemic. However, acquiring robotic technology in economically-challenged nations is very difficult for a variety of factors. This work ... -
Virtual reality for rich interaction with cultural heritage sites
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)Archaeological sites represent an important dimension of history and civilization. The aim of this work is to is to document the heritage buildings as part of a preservation process of the heritage environment by creating ... -
Virtual and Augmented Reality in Surgery
( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)To provide an overview of the novel applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies within the realm of Surgery. This chapter will clarify the concepts associated with AR and VR in the context ... -
Assistive Telexistence System Using Motion Blending
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)Robotic avatar and telexistence systems have risen in prominence after the covid-19 pandemic, where current telecommunication methods are limited in terms of physical interaction abilities. Most existing systems focus on ... -
Evaluating the use of visual prompts in online meeting applications for kindergarteners
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)The use of online meeting applications for educational purpose, has increased during pandemic. These meeting applications mostly use textual prompts as a way of communicating with the user, which might not be suitable for ... -
Generating haptic texture using solid noise
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)Texture enhances haptic interaction by providing unique, distinguishable, and versatile surfaces. In computer haptics, texture can render environments more realistic and provide useful information. In this paper, an algorithm ... -
Smart 3D Simulation of Covid-19 for Evaluating the Social Distance Measures
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)The aim of this research is to model and simulate the recent and ongoing COVID19 pandemic in terms of virus contagiousness among mixed groups of patients, carriers and unaffected individuals when taking into consideration ... -
Virtual Interactive Imagery: Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Obesity
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a multidisciplinary framework that applies psychological treatment. The framework uses virtual reality to apply guided imagery scenarios, where a person imagines a certain situation positively, to better ... -
Augmented Reality in Surgical Navigation: A Review of Evaluation and Validation Metrics
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Pre-operative imaging has been used earlier to guide traditional surgical navigation systems. There has been a lot of effort in the last decade to integrate augmented reality into the operating room to help surgeons ... -
Virtual reality for ambulance simulation environment
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Simulations are beneficial in evaluating clinicians' empirical competencies through practical skills, prioritizing, and decision-making as part of patient care scenarios generally run in a full-scale physical context. ... -
Publisher Correction: A lightweight neural network with multiscale feature enhancement for liver CT segmentation (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (14153), 10.1038/s41598-022-16828-6)
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Piton: Investigating the Controllability of a Wearable Telexistence Robot
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic impacted collaborative activities, travel, and physical contact, increasing the demand for real-time interactions with remote environments. However, the existing remote communication solutions provide ...