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The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks

With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the Metaverse has the potential to unlock hybrid intelligence. This is premised on ...

MDPI2023

Torso-mounted Vibrotactile Interface to Experimentally Induce Illusory Own-body Perceptions

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara

Recent developments in virtual reality and robotic technologies have allowed investigating the behavioural and brain mechanisms that grounds self-consciousness in the multisensory (e.g. vision and touch) and sensorimotor processing of bodily signals. Yet, ...

IEEE2019

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

Padoc: Enabling social networking in proximity

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jonny Quarta, Sven Reber

Apps supporting social networking in proximity are gaining momentum as they enable both augmenting face-to-face interaction with a digital channel (e.g. classroom interaction systems) and augmenting digital interaction by providing a local real life feelin ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Contextual Spaces with Functional Skins as OpenSocial Extension

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

Portability, flexibility and extensibility are essential features of social media platforms. When such Web platforms are able to take user's context into account, they provide better user experience and enhance the effectiveness of users' actions. In this ...

2011

Haptic/VR Assessment Tool for Fine Motor Control

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Olivier Lambercy, Evren Samur, Christophe Emery

The Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT) is routinely used in clinical environments to evaluate a patient’s fine hand control. A physician measures the total time required to insert nine pegs into nine holes and obtains information on the dexterity of the patient. Ev ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2010

On scaling strategies for the full-body postural control of virtual mannequins

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Damien Maupu

Due to its intrinsic complexity. full-body postural input has been Mostly limited to off-line motion capture and to on-line Puppetry of a virtual character with little interaction with its environment (e.g. floor). The motion capture technology is now matu ...

Elsevier2009