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TDP
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Data Access in a Cyber World: Making Use of Cyberinfrastructure
The vast amount of data now collected on human beings and organizations as a result of cyberinfrastructure advances has created similarly vast opportunities for social sc...
Julia Lane, Pascal Heus, Tim Mulcahy
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Modeling parallel and reactive empathy in virtual agents: an inductive approach
Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify their own affective state, and then respond based on these outcomes through empathetic expression. Virtua...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Ph...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
160views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
16 years 19 days ago
A constrained optimization approach to virtual fixtures for multi-handed tasks
— In this work, we have extended the concept of constrained motion control of robots to surgical tasks that require multiple robots. We present virtual fixtures to guide the mot...
Ankur Kapoor, Russell H. Taylor
EDBT
2006
ACM
202views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds: Complex Event Processing for RFID Data Streams
Advances of sensor and RFID technology provide significant new power for humans to sense, understand and manage the world. RFID provides fast data collection with precise identific...
Fusheng Wang, Shaorong Liu, Peiya Liu, Yijian Bai
PRESENCE
2008
185views more  PRESENCE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...