Medicated chewing gums (MCGs) represent a beneficial platform for realizing drugs intended for dental prophylaxis and treatment. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of compression force on the mechanical, textural, release, and chewing...
1 February 2022
The main aim of our studies was to explore the driving forces of landscape change and their impact on the landscape as perceived by citizens in our study. We use quantitative tools for unravelling processes of landscape change over time and a qualita...
Force-feedback devices enhance task performance in most robot teleoperations. However, their increased size with additional degrees of freedom can limit the robot’s applicability. To address this, an interface that visually presents force feedb...
This paper presents a module for monitoring the contact force between a probe for measuring vibration perception on the wrist and the skin. The module was designed for an original measuring stand for the automatic testing of the vibrotactile discrimi...
This study investigated how midsole hardness of basketball footwear affects lower extremity biomechanics and impacts perception in drop vertical jumps. Eighteen male basketball players performed drop vertical jumps from three heights (31 cm, 46 cm, 6...
Despite widespread modular tooling in robots and automated systems, tactile sensing lags behind, constrained by custom and non-interchangeable sensors. To close this gap, we developed a clip-on cylindrical tactile module that combines a snap-fit Clip...
Induction in pineapples requires the targeted delivery of specific chemical solutions into the plant’s central core to enable batch management, a task currently reliant on manual operation. This study addressed this challenge by analyzing the p...
To overcome the difficulties of quantitatively optimizing and evaluating evacuation guidance systems, we proposed a perception model based on virtual reality (VR) experiments and the social force model (SFM). We used VR and eye tracking devices to ca...
11 August 2025
This study explores the psychological and social impacts of the forced use of self-service technologies (SSTs) in South Korea’s hospitality and tourism sectors, focusing on perceptions of service dehumanization among different age groups. Groun...
This study discusses the organizational characteristics, driving factors, and value perceptions of small- and medium-sized construction enterprises in information and communication technology (ICT) implementation and investigates how the heterogeneou...
Manipulation of heavy objects in industries is very necessary, but manual manipulation is tedious, adversely affects a worker’s health and safety, and reduces efficiency. On the contrary, autonomous robots are not flexible to manipulate heavy objects...
Previous research has shown that both victim intoxication and narrative framing can influence the levels of victim blame. However, far less attention has been paid to how coercive strategy and narrative framing may interact to shape victim-blaming ju...
To address the limitations of conventional social force models in simulating high-density pedestrian crowds, this study proposes an enhanced model that incorporates visual perception constraints, group-type labeling, and collective avoidance mechanis...
Multidimensional force sensors are key devices capable of simultaneously perceiving and analyzing force in multiple directions (normally triaxial forces). They are designed to provide intelligent systems with skin-like precision in environmental inte...
Determining vibration perception thresholds (VPT) is a central concern of clinical research and science to assess the somatosensory capacity of humans. The response of different mechanoreceptors to an increasing contact force has rarely been studied....
This article uses force field analysis (FFA) to examine the role of stakeholders in the lignite mining project of the Western Macedonia Region, Greece, which is entering the closure phase at an accelerated pace due to energy transition policies. The...
As colleges and universities rapidly closed due to COVID-19, students and faculty were faced with unique challenges. The pandemic forced the cancellation of all campus activities, both extra-curricular and program-focused, such as student teaching ex...
In cases of severely compromised teeth, dental practitioners are confronted with the therapeutic decision of whether to restore a tooth or replace it with an implant. Comparative scientific evidence on patient perception of both treatment approaches...
Manufacturing and production industries are increasingly turning to robots to carry out repetitive picking operations in an efficient manner. This paper focuses on tackling the novel challenge of automating the bin picking process for entangled objec...
We propose a novel wearable haptic device that can provide kinesthetic haptic feedback for stiffness rendering of virtual objects in augmented reality (AR). Rendering stiffness of objects using haptic feedback is crucial for realistic finger-based ob...
This paper introduces a novel approach to robotic assistance in bottle opening using the dual-arm robot TIAGo++. The solution enhances accessibility by addressing the needs of individuals with injuries or disabilities who may require help with common...
Obstacle contact detection is not commonly employed in autonomous robots, which mainly depend on avoidance algorithms, limiting their effectiveness in cluttered environments. Current contact-detection techniques suffer from blind spots or discretized...
A tactile image sensor employing a camera is capable of obtaining rich tactile information through image sequences with high spatial resolution. There have been many studies on the tactile image sensors from more than 30 years ago, and, recently, the...
Background: Caffeine is widely used as an ergogenic aid to enhance strength performance; however, its effects on perceptual accuracy during submaximal force regulation remain unclear, particularly in multi-joint isometric tasks. This study examined w...
Rooted in social constructivist learning theory, problem-based learning (PBL) is a tool that deepens students’ learning of complex subjects and improves students’ attitudes and beliefs towards learning. Physics is a subject that students...
Changes in the world’s situation and the need to be competitive and less dependent on the global economy lead to improvements in many organisations. Together with business model transformation, using the latest technologies such as augmented re...
The authors have developed a micro-vibration actuator using filiform SMA wire electrically driven by periodic electric current. While applying the SMA actuators to tactile displays, we discovered a phenomenon that the deformation caused by a given st...
On-body robots that travel around a human limb must keep a firm enough grip to avoid slipping or detaching, while never pressing hard enough to hurt—a balance that is hardest to strike precisely when the robot is orbiting the limb and gravity c...
Haptic technology restores the sense of touch to robotic systems and has become increasingly important for safe and intuitive human–robot interaction in healthcare. Despite substantial advances over the past two decades, widespread clinical ado...
Recent advances in robotics have highlighted the importance of multimodal perception for dexterous manipulation in contact-rich environments. Here we present BiTAT, a bimanual tactile-augmented teleoperation system for collecting multimodal human dem...
Mannitol dehydration is routinely used to prevent and treat cerebral damage after total aortic arch replacement (TAAR), but existing neuroimaging technologies cannot achieve bedside real-time quantitative assessment of its impact on cerebral perfusio...
Bio-radar is widely used for casualty search and rescue. However, its short-range and handheld operation mode limits the efficiency of wide-area detection. This paper applies UAV-borne fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) to the detec...
Accurate human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dielectric parameters are critical for biological electromagnetic applications such as the electromagnetic field modelling of the human brain, the localization and intensity assessment of electrical generators...
Building collapse leads to mechanical injury, which is the main cause of injury and death, with crush syndrome as its most common complication. During the post-disaster search and rescue phase, if rescue personnel hastily remove heavy objects coverin...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor in adults, with a median overall survival of fewer than 15 months despite standard-of-care treatment. Accurate preoperative prognostication is essential for personalized treatme...
Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive and heterogeneous primary malignancy of the central nervous system, with a median overall survival (OS) of approximately 15 months. Achieving accurate and generalizable OS prediction across multi-...
Background: This study aimed to develop a model that automatically predicts the neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) response for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) based on T2-weighted MR images and clinical parameters. Methods: A...
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, with arrhythmia being a prevalent and potentially fatal condition. The multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the primary tool for detecting arrhythmias. However, existing detection met...
Glioblastoma has a high recurrence rate, yet conventional single-time-point imaging fails to capture the dynamic tumor evolution before and after surgery. This study aims to develop a deep learning model based on preoperative and postoperative longit...
Deep networks have shown strong performance in glioma grading; however, interpreting their decisions remains challenging due to glioma heterogeneity. To address these challenges, the proposed solution is the Causal Segmentation Framework (CSF). This...
Bladder cancer is a prevalent and highly recurrent malignancy within the urinary tract. The accurate segmentation of the bladder wall and tumor in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial step in distinguishing between non-muscle-invasive and mu...
Contact-force perception is a critical component of safe robotic grasping. With the rapid advances in embodied intelligence technology, humanoid robots have enhanced their multimodal perception capabilities. Conventional force sensors face limitation...
Background: to investigate the acute effects of vibration and force level on vibrotactile perception following short-term exposure to hand-arm vibration (HAV). Methods: 12 individuals attended the test, and each of them completed a set of grasping ta...
Purpose: This study aimed to explore the relationship between foot loading and comfort perception in two basketball shoes during basketball-specific maneuvers. Methods: Twelve male collegiate basketball players were required to complete three basketb...
A novel cooperative strategy for distributed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms with different functions, namely the mission chain-driven unmanned aerial vehicle swarms cooperation method, is proposed to allow the fast search and timely rescue of i...
Plants encounter a variety of mechanical stimuli during their growth and development. It is currently believed that mechanosensitive ion channels play an essential role in the initial perception of mechanical force in plants. Over the past decade, th...
Objective: Dystonias, characterized by excessive muscle contractions resulting in involuntary postures and movements, impact 3 million people globally, making them the third most common movement disorder. Often accompanied by tremors, dystonias have...
Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) has recently attracted significant interest due to its vital role in enabling empathetic and human-compatible technologies. Developing models that remain robust under in-the-wild variability is a key motiv...
Multi-modal haptic rendering is an important research direction to improve realism in haptic rendering. It can produce various mechanical stimuli that render multiple perceptions, such as hardness and roughness. This paper proposes a multi-modal hapt...
The registration of preoperative and follow-up brain MRI, which is crucial in illustrating patients’ responses to treatments and providing guidance for postoperative therapy, presents significant challenges. These challenges stem from the consi...
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