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Phygital play: where gaming intersects mixed reality, robotics and human-machine interaction
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Advances in Gaming, Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain for Consumer Technologies
No full textUser interaction feedback in a hand-controlled interface for robot team tele-operation using wearable augmented reality
No full textContinuous advancements in the field of robotics and its increasing spread across heterogeneous application scenarios make the development of ever more effective user interfaces for human-robot interaction (HRI) an extremely relevant research topic. In particular, Natural User Interfaces (NUIs), e.g., based on hand and body gestures, proved to be an interesting technology to be exploited for designing intuitive interaction paradigms in the field of HRI. However, the more sophisticated the HRI interfaces become, the more important is to provide users with an accurate feedback about the state of the robot as well as of the interface itself. In this work, an Augmented Reality (AR)-based interface is deployed on a head-mounted display to enable tele-operation of a remote robot team using hand movements and gestures. A user study is performed to assess the advantages of wearable AR compared to desktop-based AR in the execution of specific tasks
A testbed for studying cybersickness and its mitigation in immersive virtual reality
Full text linkCybersickness (CS) represents one of the oldest problems affecting Virtual Reality (VR) technology. In an attempt to resolve or at least limit this form of discomfort, an increasing number of mitigation techniques have been proposed by academic and industrial researchers. However, the validation of such techniques is often carried out without grounding on a common methodology, making the comparison between the various works in the state of the art difficult. To address this issue, the present paper proposes a novel testbed for studying CS in immersive VR and, in particular, methods to mitigate it. The testbed consists of four virtual scenarios, which have been designed to elicit CS in a targeted and predictable manner. The scenarios, grounded on available literature, support the extraction of objective metrics about user's performance. The testbed additionally integrates an experimental protocol that employs standard questionnaires as well as measurements typically adopted in state-of-the-art practice to assess levels of CS and other subjective aspects regarding User Experience. The paper shows a possible use case of the testbed, concerning the evaluation of a CS mitigation technique that is compared with the absence of mitigation as baseline condition
Ubiquitous real-time monitoring of critical-care patients in intensive care units
No full textThis paper presents the preliminary results in the development of a framework for ubiquitous monitoring in a Intensive Care Unit environment, which aims at enabling mobile access to real-time bedside monitoring data and to a comprehensive electronic patient's clinical record at any moment in time and from any location, by means of a PDA device capable of secure wireless communications. The main goal of the proposed architecture is to optimise the employment of human resources involved in monitoring activities, while at the same time enhancing the quality of delivered services and improving the level of attention to patients
Migrating desktop applications to the Internet: A novel virtualization paradigm based on Web operating systems
No full textEstablishing the Technical Activities and Technical Committees of IEEE Consumer Technology Society
Full text linkThe IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) is the oldest technical society: it was part of IRE 1920, which merged with AIEE to form IEEE in 1963. As CTSoc claims to be an IEEE Technical Society and is actually one of the 39 IEEE Societies operating under the IEEE Technical Activities Board, it was essential for its recent organizational restructure to include a Technical Activities (TAs) area. This article summarizes the efforts that have been put recently in place over slightly more than two years (since September 2019) by a group of volunteers under the guidance of CTSoc's President and with the help of VP of TAs to establish the TAs area and its 15 technical committees (TCs)
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