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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,163 Views
19 Pages

With the spread of devices equipped with touch panels, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, the opportunity for users to perform touch interaction has increased. In this paper, we constructed a device that generates multi-touch interactions to...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,090 Views
21 Pages

The Content-Specific Display: Between Medium and Metaphor

  • Lukas Van Campenhout,
  • Elke Mestdagh and
  • Kristof Vaes

25 October 2024

This paper examines the current generation of displays, as found primarily in smartphones, laptops and tablet computers, from an interaction design perspective. Today’s displays are multifunctional, versatile devices with a standardized, rectan...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Manufacturing System Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,874 Views
15 Pages

30 April 2021

Today, Web3D technologies and the rise of new standards, combined with faster browsers and better hardware integration, allow the creation of engaging and interactive web applications that target the field of cultural heritage. Functional, accessible...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue YOCOCU2020 Hands on Heritage: Experiencing, Conservation, Mastering Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,327 Views
25 Pages

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Tactile Sensing Systems

  • Paolo Gastaldo,
  • Luigi Pinna,
  • Lucia Seminara,
  • Maurizio Valle and
  • Rodolfo Zunino

19 June 2014

Tactile sensing helps robots interact with humans and objects effectively in real environments. Piezoelectric polymer sensors provide the functional building blocks of the robotic electronic skin, mainly thanks to their flexibility and suitability fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tactile Sensors and Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,393 Views
19 Pages

2 May 2022

Hand motion sensing-based interaction, abbreviated as ‘free-hand interaction’, provides a natural and intuitive method for touch-less interaction on a large display. But due to inherent usability deficiencies of the unconventional size of...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,332 Views
26 Pages

20 February 2020

Current Air Traffic Controller working positions (CWPs) are reaching their capacity owing to increasing levels of air traffic. The multimodal CWP prototype TriControl combines automatic speech recognition, multitouch gestures, and eye-tracking, aimin...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,649 Views
18 Pages

“Extended Reality (XR)” refers to a unified platform or content that supports all forms of “reality”—e.g., 2D, 3D virtual, augmented, and augmented virtual. We explore how the mobile device can support such a concept of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Extended Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,345 Views
17 Pages

Despite the growing efficiency of the map-design process in general, tactile mapping has remained peripheral to mainstream cartography. For a specific group of people with visual impairment, however, tactile maps are the only effective way to obtain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,314 Views
12 Pages

15 November 2020

Lightweight, flexible and distributed-pixel piezoelectric sensors are desired in activity monitoring and human–machine interaction (HMI). In this work, a flexible P(VDF-TrFE) piezoelectric sensor array using ITO-coated PET substrate as the shared bot...

(This article belongs to the Section Functional Polymer Coatings and Films)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,793 Views
15 Pages

The Technical Development of a Prototype Lower-Limb Therapy Device for Bed-Resting Users

  • Juan Fang,
  • Adrien Cerrito,
  • Simón Gamero Schertenleib,
  • Patrick von Raumer and
  • Kai-Uwe Schmitt

26 January 2025

It is generally recommended that bed-resting patients be mobilised early to promote recovery. The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate the usability of a prototype in-bed lower-limb therapy device that offers various training patterns for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems, Robots and Devices for Healthcare and Rehabilitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
998 Views
37 Pages

29 January 2026

Background/Objectives: From birth, infants learn how to interact with the world through exploration. It has been proposed that this early learning phase is driven by motor babbling: the spontaneous generation of exploratory movements that are progres...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,223 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2026

Background: Sleep disorders, particularly chronic insomnia (Nidranasha), represent an escalating global public health challenge associated with extensive neuropsychological and metabolic morbidities. While conventional pharmacotherapy provides immedi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sleep Disorders: Current Research and Future Directions—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
890 Views
17 Pages

28 June 2026

To address prevalent industrial challenges, including the high cost of fabricating microstructures via photolithography and 3D printing, impurity residues easily generated by conventional physical/chemical pore-forming techniques, and the limited sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro- and Nanosensors: Fabrication, Applications and Performance Enhancements, 4th Edition)