• A study of children emotion and their performance while handwriting Arabic characters using a haptic device 

      Zakraoui, Jezia; Saleh, Moutaz; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; AlJa'am, Jihad Mohamad ( Springer , 2022 , Article)
      Emotion and focus of children during handwriting are essential for language learning. Handwriting for young children is challenging because it needs deep motivation and willingness to complete the task regardless of its ...
    • A Study of Children Engagement and Focus During Handwriting in VR with a Haptic Device 

      Zakraoui, Jezia; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Salah, Moutaz; Alja'am, Jihad ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Engagement and focus of children during the handwriting process are essential factors for language learning and concepts acquisition. Handwriting for young children is challenging because it needs large motivation, great ...
    • An Experience of Using a Handwriting Haptic Device to Fine-Tune the Children Motor Skills 

      Zakraoui, Jezia; Al Maadeed, Sumaya; Abou El-Seoud, Samir; Saleh, Moutaz; Al Ja'am, Jihad ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Handwriting can help children to improve their learning of a language and fine-tune their motor skills. Every child needs to develop her/his handwriting skill to grasp new concepts appropriately and learn the language ...
    • Assistive Telexistence System Using Motion Blending 

      Eltanbouly, S.; Abdel-Ghani, M.; Helmy, H.; Iskandar, A.; Al-Sada, M.; ... more authors ( 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 ...
    • HapticSnakes: multi-haptic feedback wearable robots for immersive virtual reality 

      Al-Sada, Mohammed; Jiang, Keren; Ranade, Shubhankar; Kalkattawi, Mohammed; Nakajima, Tatsuo ( Springer London , 2019 , Article)
      Haptic feedback plays a large role in enhancing immersion and presence in VR. However, previous research and commercial products have limitations in terms of variety and locations of delivered feedbacks. To address these ...
    • Incorporating haptic and olfactory into surgical simulation 

      Halabi, O.; Al-Mesaifri, F.; Al-Ansari, M.; Al-Shaabi, R.; Barki, H.; ... more authors ( 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 

      Halabi, O.; Al-Mesaifri, F.; Al-Ansari, M.; Al-Shaabi, R.; Miyata, K. ( 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 ...