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HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Local Models for Stable Multi-Contact Haptic Interaction with Deformable Objects
This paper describes a new technique for allowing multiple users to haptically interact with a set of deformable slowly-simulated objects in a stable manner. Stability has been ap...
Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., Dom...
AGI
2011
14 years 5 months ago
Generalization of Figure-Ground Segmentation from Binocular to Monocular Vision in an Embodied Biological Brain Model
Abstract. Humans have the remarkable ability to generalize from binocular to monocular figure-ground segmentation of complex scenes. This is clearly evident anytime we look at a p...
Brian Mingus, Trent Kriete, Seth A. Herd, Dean Wya...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Monitoring social expectations in Second Life
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Stephen Cranefield, Guannan Li
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Force Feedback is Noticeably Different for Linear versus Nonlinear Elastic Tissue Models
Realistic modeling of the interaction between surgical instruments and human organs has been recognized as a key requirement in the development of high-fidelity surgical simulato...
Sarthak Misra, Allison M. Okamura, K. T. Ramesh
FLAIRS
2006
15 years 2 months ago
Cognitive Simulation in Virtual Patients
We present an overview of the Virtual Patient project at the University of Maryland, which is developing a cognitive model of humans experiencing various states of health and dise...
Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale,...