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AROBOTS
2000
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13 years 10 months ago
The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-Functional System
We wish for robots to manipulate objects and move flexibly in three-dimensional spaces. We describe a robot that can move on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions ...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
An Electric Field Pretouch system for grasping and co-manipulation
— Pretouch sensing is longer range than contact, but shorter range than vision. The hypothesis motivating this work is that closed loop feedback based on short range but nonconta...
Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith
MM
2000
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Intimacy and embodiment: implications for art and technology
People have aesthetic experiences when they manipulate objects skillfully. Highly skilled performance with an object requires forming a highly intimate relationship with it. Aesth...
Sidney Fels
IWC
2000
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Design and evaluation of the alignment stick
Object alignment is one of the basic operations in drawing programs. Current solutions provide mainly three ways for carrying out this operation: either by issuing an alignment co...
Roope Raisamo, Kari-Jouko Räihä
VRST
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
3D object arrangement for novice users: the effectiveness of combining a first-person and a map view
Arranging 3D objects in Virtual Environments can be a complex, error prone and time consuming task, especially for users who are not familiar with interfaces for 3D navigation and...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti