The effectiveness of vibration-reducing (VR) gloves is conventionally assessed based on the vibration transmissibility of the gloves. This study proposed a method for analyzing and assessing the effectiveness of VR gloves based on how gloves affect t...
Loess landslide disasters are influenced by a multitude of factors, including slope conditions, triggering mechanisms, and spatial attributes. Extracting these factors from unstructured geological texts is challenging due to nested entities, semantic...
31 August 2021
The article presents validation argumentation of the novel method of evaluating resistance to surface wetting with different liquids of protective materials intended for polymer protective gloves based on the three parameters: water permeability inde...
Communication among hard-of-hearing individuals presents challenges, and to facilitate communication, sign language is preferred. Many people in the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities struggle to understand sign language due to their lack of sign-m...
Background: The maintenance of an aseptic barrier between the surgical team and patient aids in the prevention of exposure of the patient to pathogens. Variations in gloving practice may have safety implications due to glove failure. An important rel...
Data gloves capable of measuring finger joint kinematics can provide objective range of motion information useful for clinical hand assessment and rehabilitation. Data glove sensors are strategically placed over specific finger joints to detect movem...
Gloves represent an essential feature for hand protection because it is a requirement in the professional framework to comply with both hand hygiene standards and the principles of good laboratory practice. Despite their wide use, there is a knowledg...
Background: The maintenance of an aseptic barrier between the surgical team and patient aids in the prevents the exposure of the patient to pathogens. Variations in gloving practice may have safety implications due to glove failure. Indicator gloving...
The ISO Standard 10819:2013 defines the method for evaluating the performances of antivibration (AV) gloves, but when used in real fields, the protection can be dissimilar to that labeled. This paper investigates the transmissibility, at the palm lev...
Objective: Various studies have depicted the incidence of glove perforations during open (OS) and minimally invasive surgeries (MIS). The aim of this meta-analysis was to compare the incidence of macroscopic and microscopic glove perforations during...
(1) Background: The sterile latex surgical glove is an important part of protecting both the patient and the surgical team from infections. However, mechanical stress can damage the integrity of the glove material and thus may lead to infections. (2)...
Wheelchair racing gloves are typically solid 3D structures held in a clenched fist which help to propel the chair by pushing the glove against a rotating rail which is attached to the wheel to drive the wheelchair forward. There has been a recent mov...
A therapeutic glove, which enables medical non-professionals to perform physiotherapeutic gripping and holding movements on patients, would significantly improve the healthcare situation in physiotherapy. The glove aims to detect the orthogonal press...
The objective of this paper is to accurately measure the vibration response of tools and hands by simulating the hand-held power tools, which are operated by astronauts wearing extravehicular spacesuit gloves under microgravity conditions. The total...
Teleoperated robots have attracted significant interest in recent years, and data gloves are one of the commonly used devices for their operation. However, existing solutions still encounter two challenges: the ways in which data gloves capture human...
Wearable devices such as data gloves have experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades. It is vital to develop flexible sensors with fast response, high sensitivity and high stability for intelligent data gloves. Therefore, a tractable low...
(1) Background: Far-UVC radiation in the spectral range 200–230 nm has, according to previous findings, a strong antimicrobial effect on pathogens, but exhibits hardly any harmful effect on human skin. Therefore, the present study will discuss...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) present significant challenges in modern healthcare, leading to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Examination gloves play a critical...
(1) Aim: This study aims to assess the repeatability and accuracy of a 9-axis IMU-based glove and an IR camera system, in order to determine their potential to replace traditional goniometry. (2) Background: Traditional methods for assessing hand fun...
In this paper, a new control-centric approach is introduced to model the characteristics of flex sensors on a goniometric glove, which is designed to capture the user hand gesture that can be used to wirelessly control a bionic hand. The main techniq...
Recently, gesture recognition technology has attracted increasing attention because it provides another means of information exchange in some special occasions, especially for auditory impaired individuals. At present, the fusion of sensor signals an...
Glove fit is crucial for both wear comfort and safety. A well-fitting glove can be realized by combining anthropometric hand measurements from three-dimensional (3D) scanning with the finite element method (FEM). This study reviews how accurate hand...
Safety helmets and gloves are indispensable personal protective equipment in power grid operation environments. Traditional detection methods for safety helmets and gloves suffer from reduced accuracy due to factors such as dense personnel presence,...
With the development of virtual reality (VR) interaction technology, data glove has become one of the most popular devices for human-computer interaction. It’s valuable to design high-sensitive and flexible sensor for data glove. Therefore, a l...
Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive visual and auditory experiences, transporting users to alternate realities. However, existing VR systems lack realistic haptic feedback mechanisms, resulting in unsatisfactory immersive experiences. In this study...
Maintenance and service are important tasks for any industrial enterprise. This article presents a methodology for technical maintenance that employs a smart glove equipped with tactile sensors, an electronic unit responsible for processing and trans...
Background/Objectives: the precise application of torque during prosthetic screw tightening is essential to the long-term success and mechanical stability of implant-supported restorations. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of practitioner e...
Anti-vibration gloves undergo a certification procedure that is described in the EN ISO 10819:2013. This is a laboratory practice that, in this paper, is compared with a standardized field method. Two methods are implemented in the tests: a direct me...
Radiation methods are widely used for disinfection and sterilization applications. Microorganisms demonstrate known, variable tolerance levels to inactivation with lower doses of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation based on multiple mechanisms of res...
24 February 2020
Recent research calls for distinguishing whether the failure to comply with World Health Organisation hand hygiene guidelines is driven by omitting to rub/wash hands, or subsequently recontamination of clean hands or gloves prior to a procedure. This...
Gloves, used in conjunction with hand hygiene, are designed to protect healthcare personnel from direct contact with blood, body fluids, and other potentially infectious materials, which is critical for reducing the transmission of microorganisms. Th...
The article presents research on the evaluation of the use of two four-layer textile composites with ZrO2/Al coatings of different thicknesses (deposited by magnetron sputtering PVD) with potential use in thermally insulating protective gloves design...
This study presents a new approach to developing protective material structures for personal protective equipment (PPE), and in particular for protective gloves, with the use of ultrasonic and contact welding processes. The goal was to assess the qua...
Background: Some surgeons change gloves and instruments after the extirpative phase of cancer surgery with the intent of reducing the risk of local and wound recurrence. Although this practice is conceptually appealing, the evidence that gloves or in...
20 August 2022
Background: The effectiveness of the virtual reality (VR) for the upper extremity (UE) motor rehabilitation after stroke has been widely studied. However, the effectiveness of the combination between rehabilitation gloves and semi-immersive VR (SVR)...
With the use of collaborative robots in intelligent manufacturing, human–robot interaction has become more important in human–robot collaborations. Human–robot handover has a huge impact on human–robot interaction. For current...
29 June 2021
Background: Despite facial self–touching being a possible source of transmission of SARS–Co–V–2 its role in dental practice has not been studied. Factors such as anxiety symptoms or threat perception of COVID-19 may increase the possibility of contag...
Aiming to address the issue of low efficiency and a high false-detection rate in artificial defect detection in nitrile medical gloves, CCA-YOLO was proposed on the basis of YOLOv5 to realize the detection of tear and scratch defects. CCA-YOLO added...
Real-time sensing and modeling of the human body, especially the hands, is an important research endeavor for various applicative purposes such as in natural human computer interactions. Hand pose estimation is a big academic and technical challenge...
31 May 2024
Introduction: With the increased integration of technologies in the healthcare sector, it is important to understand the benefits emerging technologies may play to reduce demands on the health care system. The Steadiwear antivibration glove shows pro...
This study proposes the design and application of wearable gloves that can recognize sign language expressions from input images via long short-term memory (LSTM) network models and can learn sign language through finger movement generation and vibra...
Virtual reality (VR) technology has shown potential as a viable tool for rehabilitation. VR is a well-recognized technology that creates immersive experiences to enhance engagement and encourage more effective participation in activities. In the curr...
In this work, a lightweight compliant glove that detects scratching using data from microtubular stretchable sensors on each finger and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) on the palm through a machine learning model is presented: the SensorIsed Glove...
This paper proposes an object classification method using a flexion glove and machine learning. The classification is performed based on the information obtained from a single grasp on a target object. The flexion glove is developed with five flex se...
In this paper, we present the development of a data glove system based on fingertip tracking techniques. To track the fingertip position and orientation, a sensor module and two generator coils are attached on the fingertip and metacarpal of the corr...
A goniometer is currently the gold standard for range of motion (ROM) measurements. However, trained staff are required for accurate measurements. The objective of this study is to assess an agreement between the proposed standalone inertial measurem...
Finding ways to enable seamless communication between deaf and able-bodied individuals has been a challenging and pressing issue. This paper proposes a solution to this problem by designing a low-cost data glove that utilizes multiple inertial sensor...
Sign language plays a crucial role in bridging communication barriers within the Deaf community. Recognizing sign language sentences remains a significant challenge due to their complex structure, variations in signing styles, and temporal dynamics....
(1) Background: As digital health technology evolves, the role of accurate medical-gloved hand tracking is becoming more important for the assessment and training of practitioners to reduce procedural errors in clinical settings. (2) Method: This stu...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological progressive movement disorder, affecting more than 10 million people globally. PD demands a longitudinal assessment of symptoms to monitor the disease progression and manage the treatments. Existing as...
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