This study investigates the influence of positive feedback on students’ motivation and engagement in the classroom. It explores teachers’ perspectives on how positive feedback affects students’ learning involvement and motivation. T...
This cross-sectional study investigated the interconnected roles of university students’ mindsets (growth and fixed), perceptions of writing feedback, and academic emotion regulation in shaping self-regulated writing ability. Data were collecte...
Assistive technology uses multi-modal feedback devices, focusing on the visual, auditory, and haptic modalities. Tactile devices provide additional information via touch sense. Perception accuracy of vibrations depends on the spectral and temporal at...
Writing is a goal-oriented cognitive activity that requires metacognition and is essential for learners across all academic levels. However, many students struggle with writing skills, which can negatively affect their academic success and future opp...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) systems are becoming widely used for education with three-dimensional (3D) information. Specifically, three-dimensional spaces to create virtual environments can help increase students’ learning interest and abili...
Amid the increasing complexity of urban risks, urban parks not only serve ecological and recreational functions but are increasingly becoming a critical spatial foundation supporting public psychological resilience and social recovery. This study aim...
This quantitative study investigates the perceptions of learners and faculty regarding the help provided by the feedback process, which aligns with and integrates Brooks et al.’s Matrix of Feedback for Learning in the asynchronous online compon...
Vibrations occurring when playing a musical instrument can affect how the quality of the instrument is perceived by the player. Previous studies on violins have investigated how vibrotactile feedback influences certain perceptual attributes and the p...
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...
Immersive human–machine interaction relies on comprehensive sensing and feedback systems, which enable transmission of multiple pieces of information. However, the integration of increasing numbers of feedback actuators and sensors causes a sev...
This study proposes a new hybrid multi-modal sensory feedback system for prosthetic hands that can provide not only haptic and proprioceptive feedback but also facilitate object recognition without the aid of vision. Modality-matched haptic perceptio...
Over the past decade, telehealth provision of care has become increasingly common. This shift away from in-person clinics may impact the experience of medical learners and the preceptors who train them. This study aimed to measure and compare obstetr...
Tactile sensation is one type of valuable feedback in evaluating a product. Conventionally, sensory evaluation is used to get direct subjective responses from the consumers, in order to improve the product’s quality. However, this method is a time-co...
This mixed-methods, intact-class quasi-experimental study compared teacher-feedback, GenAI-feedback, and teacher–GenAI-blended-feedback in supporting Chinese EFL learners’ writing outcomes. A total of 109 first-year university students fr...
A well-designed visual environment in community third places has significant positive effects on residents’ emotional well-being. Only a few studies have examined these effects; therefore, this study comprehensively explores the effect of the v...
Background: Cochlear implants (CIs) are transformative neuroprosthetics that restore speech perception for individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss. However, temporal envelope cues are well-represented within the signal processing, while spec...
This study examines how tourists perceive food quality in Berlin using AI-driven sentiment analysis tools. The goal is to understand the factors shaping tourists’ perceptions and provide insights to improve the hospitality industry and customer...
Recent advances in extended reality (XR) have enabled immersive virtual flight experiences for applications such as entertainment and teleoperation support. However, XR-based flight systems that rely primarily on audiovisual cues often fail to evoke...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had global effects on all industries and on people around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has had repercussions both politically and economically, as well as on society and the individual, i.e., on the human psyche. Althoug...
Current XR applications move beyond audiovisual information, with haptic feedback rapidly gaining ground. However, current haptic devices are still evolving and often struggle to combine key desired features in a balanced way. In this paper, we propo...
Tourism destinations operate as multi-actor governance environments in which stakeholders interpret sustainability initiatives differently, reflecting their distinct institutional roles. This study applies a diagnostic system dynamics perspective to...
Perceptual development of English intonation remains challenging for Iranian EFL learners due to systematic L1–L2 prosodic differences. Adopting a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control-group design with a sequential mixed-methods componen...
Cohesive human–robot collaboration can be achieved through seamless communication between human and robot partners. We posit that the design aspects of human–robot communication (HRCom) can take inspiration from human communication to cre...
Ultrasonic phased arrays have shown promise in generating virtual texture haptics through haptics feedback points. However, factors such as skin vibration speed, amplitude variations, acoustic interference, and energy loss can influence textural hapt...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and sensing technologies increasingly mediate how humans encounter physical, bodily, and digital environments. Yet intelligent-sensor frameworks still emphasize accuracy, latency, power, and robustness while giving less a...
Dexterous robotic grasping with multifingered hands remains a critical challenge in non-visual environments, where diverse object geometries and material properties demand adaptive force modulation and tactile-aware manipulation. To address this, we...
To acquire knowledge about student-mediated peer-to-peer collaborative activities, pre-service teachers’ perceptions of peer feedback are analyzed and categorized as receiver, provider, or cognitive feedback. A questionnaire of 15 survey questi...
Vibrotactile stimulation has applications in a variety of fields, including medicine, virtual reality, and human–computer interaction. Eccentric Rotating Mass (ERM) vibrating motors are widely used in wearable haptic devices owing to their smal...
(1) Background: Structured use of feedback and self-reflection in simulated counselling sessions has a number of benefits, including identification of strategies for improvement, improvement in key skills and adaptability and a patient-centred approa...
Providing effective feedback on writing remains a challenge for teachers. Among the tools and strategies being explored to address this issue is generative artificial intelligence (AI), due to its potential to deliver immediate and tailored feedback...
The Smart Meter Rollout Programme in the UK has required energy suppliers to offer new smart meters to customers to provide near real-time energy use information and enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. The provision...
Low back pain patients often have deficits in trunk stability. For this reason, many patients receive physiotherapy treatment, which represents an enormous socio-economic burden. Training at home could reduce these costs. The problem here is the lack...
Tactile sensation is a crucial sensory pathway for humans to acquire information from the environment, and vibration feedback is one form of tactile feedback, offering advantages such as low cost, ease of integration, and high comfort. Avoiding mecha...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping educational practices; however, its use by university supervisors (USs) to provide feedback to preservice teachers (PSTs) during field experiences remains underexplored. This collaborative action resear...
This intrinsic case study investigated English as a foreign language (EFL) medical students’ preferences for and perceptions of teacher written corrective feedback (WCF) on their academic writing. Chinese-speaking second-year first-semester und...
This study examines a persistent puzzle in active learning research in education: why do pedagogically sound interventions not always translate into perceived student value? We analyzed Information and Communications (ICT) Engineering students’...
Background: Formative assessment (FA) coupled with structured feedback is increasingly recognized as a means of supporting learning in human anatomy, a foundational yet challenging discipline for first-year nursing students. This study examined first...
(1) Background: Simulation is an effective way to develop practical pharmacy skills; combining simulation and self-reflection can increase impacts on learning. While existing literature highlights the benefits of reflection in developing self-awarene...
Mechanized harvesting of bulk tea in unstructured hilly tea gardens requires accurate dynamic profiling of irregular canopies at a constant cutting depth to avoid harvesting coarse and old leaves, missing tender shoots, and reducing yield and quality...
Real-time haptic interactions occur under two exploration modes: active and passive. In this paper, we present a series of experiments that evaluate the main perceptual characteristics of both exploration modes. In particular, we focus on haptic shap...
In this study, the influence of piano key vibration levels on players’ personal judgment of the instrument quality and on the dynamics and timing of the players’ performance of a music piece excerpt is examined. In an experiment four vibr...
The article presents a contextual survey of eight contributions in the special issue Musical Interactions (Volume I) in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. The presentation includes (1) a critical examination of what it means to be musical, to d...
Multi-pad electrotactile stimulation can be used to provide tactile feedback in different applications. The electrotactile interface needs to be calibrated before each use, which entails adjusting the intensity to obtain clear sensations while allowi...
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 study is designed to understand post-exercise comfort perceptions by exploring the relationship between users and garments. Influenced by new technologies from fibres, manufacturing techniques, and surface coatings athletic apparel is changing....
Most users are not satisfied with the typing vibration feedback from linear motors of mobile phones since it feels like buzzing rather than physical key pressing feedback. For larger touchscreens, such as 10.1 inch tablets, there is no commercial tac...
Wearable vibrotactile devices are increasingly used in virtual reality, teleoperation and neurorehabilitation, but objective EEG evaluation of glove-mediated touch remains limited. We compared EEG recorded during natural object interaction with EEG r...
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...
The lack of reliable sensory input from prosthetic limbs limits transfemoral amputees’ ability to perceive limb movement without visual monitoring. This study evaluated design parameters of a proposed forearm-based vibrotactile system in a pre-...
Time theft, especially with the shift to remote work during the pandemic, is an increasing challenge for organizations. Existing studies demonstrate that both authoritarian leadership and laissez-faire leadership can exacerbate time theft, putting le...
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