For mobility-impaired people, the wheelchair is considered as a main navigation and accessibility device. However, due to the inherited design of the chair, the user is restricted to utilize his hand all the time during navigation resulting in a dual impairment. Our proposed system, SlideFusion, expands on previous work of collaborative and assistive technologies for […]
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For most mammals and vertebrate animals, tail plays an important role for their body providing variant functions to expand their mobility, or as a limb that allows manipulation and gripping. In this work, Arque, we propose an artificial biomimicry-inspired anthropomorphic tail to allow us alter our body momentum for assistive, and haptic feedback applications. The […]
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We present a wearable haptic assistance robotic system for augmented motor learning called Naviarm. This system comprises two robotic arms that are mounted on a user’s body and are used to transfer one person’s motion to another offline. Naviarm pre-records the arm motion trajectories of an expert via the mounted robotic arms and then plays […]
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Effective communication is a key factor in social and professional contexts which involve sharing the skills and actions of more than one person. This research proposes a novel system to enable full body sharing over a remotely operated wearable system, allowing one person to dive into someone’s else body. “Fusion” enables body surrogacy by sharing […]
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MetaArms, wearable anthropomorphic robotic arms and hands with six degrees of freedom operated by the user’s legs and feet. Our overall research goal is to re-imagine what our bodies can do with the aid of wearable robotics using a body-remapping approach. To this end, we present an initial exploratory case study. MetaArms’ two robotic arms […]
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If we could have the capability to edit or customize our body scheme by technology, could our abilities and activities be enhanced? This research proposes a novel interaction to alternate body scheme using artificial limbs substitution metamorphosis. In this work, two additional robotic arms are added to user’s body, and are manipulated by legs movement. […]
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In this paper, we analyze the subjective feelings about the body of the operator of a telexistence system. We investigate whether a mirror reflection and self-touch affect body ownership and agency for a surrogate robot avatar in a virtual reality experiment. Results showed that the presence of tactile sensations synchronized with the view of self-touch […]
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Twech is a mobile platform that enables users to share visuo-tactile experience and search other experiences for tactile data. User can record and share visuo-tactile experiences by using a visuo-tactile recording and displaying attachment for smartphone, allows the user to instantly such as tweet, and re-experience shared data such as visuo-motor coupling. Further, Twech’s search […]
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This paper presents a study of using supernumerary arms experience in virtual reality applications. In this study, a system was developed that alternates user’s body scheme and motion mapping in real-time when the user interacts with virtual contents. User arms and hands are tracked and mapped into several virtual arms instances that were generated from […]
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We propose “Layered Telepresence”, a novel method of experiencing simultaneous multi-presence. Users eye gaze and perceptual awareness are blended with real-time audio-visual information received from multiple telepresence robots. The system arranges audio-visual information received through multiple robots into a priority-driven layered stack. A weighted feature map was created based on the objects recognized for each […]