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PRESENCE
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Physically Realistic Virtual Surgery Using the Point-Associated Finite Field (PAFF) Approach
The generation of multimodal virtual environments for surgical training is complicated by the necessity to develop heterogeneous simulation scenarios such as surgical incision, ca...
Suvranu De, Yi-Je Lim, Manivannan Muniyandi, Manda...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
HAPTICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Autostereoscopic and Haptic Visualization for Space Exploration and Mission Design
We have developed a multi-modal virtual environment set-up by fusing visual and haptic images through the use of a new autostereoscopic display and a force-feedback haptic device....
Cagatay Basdogan, Mitchell J. H. Lum, Jose Salcedo...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Force Feedback is Noticeably Different for Linear versus Nonlinear Elastic Tissue Models
Realistic modeling of the interaction between surgical instruments and human organs has been recognized as a key requirement in the development of high-fidelity surgical simulato...
Sarthak Misra, Allison M. Okamura, K. T. Ramesh
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...