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Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Touch Craft Ltd completed a feasibility study to understand the market position, technologies and user requirement for a smart sock sensing system designed to help monitor foot problems for people living with diabetes. The proposed system would involve a
Lucie Hernandez
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Expansion and contraction of resource allocation in sensory bottlenecks
eLife, 2022 Topographic sensory representations often do not scale proportionally to the size of their input regions, with some expanded and others contracted. In vision, the foveal representation is magnified cortically, as are the fingertips in touch.
Laura R Edmondson +2 more
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Taking an Extended Embodied Perspective of Touch: Connection-Disconnection in iVR
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Bringing touch into VR experiences through haptics is considered increasingly important for user engagement and fostering feelings of presence and immersion, yet few qualitative studies have explored users' iVR touch experiences.
Sara Price +4 more
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2023 Many techniques have attempted to provide physical support to ease the execution of a typing task by individuals with developmental disabilities (DD).
Giovanni Nicoli +4 more
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Can surgical simulation be used to train detection and classification of neural networks?
Healthcare Technology Letters, 2017 Computer-assisted interventions (CAI) aim to increase the effectiveness, precision and repeatability of procedures to improve surgical outcomes. The presence and motion of surgical tools is a key information input for CAI surgical phase recognition ...
Odysseas Zisimopoulos +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Contrary to the assumption of arbitrariness in modern linguistics, sound symbolism, which is the non-arbitrary relationship between sounds and meanings, exists.
Li Shan Wong +6 more
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Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
eLife, 2022 Perception and cognition are modulated by the phase of the cardiac signal in which the stimuli are presented. This has been shown by locking the presentation of stimuli to distinct cardiac phases.
Alejandro Galvez-Pol +3 more
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Nursing Inquiry, 2020 AbstractThe need for human touch is universal among critical care patients and is an important component of the nurse–patient relationship. However, multiple barriers to human touch exist in the critical care environment. With little research to guide practice, we argue for the importance of human touch in the provision of holistic nursing care.
Marliese Dion Nist +5 more
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The use of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery: A systematic review
JPRAS Open, 2017 Introduction: This systematic review aims to study the feasibility, procedural, approaches, outcomes and complications of robot-assisted plastic and reconstructive surgery in patients and models. Method: A systematic review was performed. Medline, Web of
Jean Nehme +2 more
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022 Stroke survivors are commonly affected by somatosensory impairment, hampering their ability to interpret somatosensory information. Somatosensory information has been shown to critically support movement execution in healthy individuals and stroke ...
Eduardo Villar Ortega +5 more
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