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HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Discrimination of thermal diffusivity
Materials such as wood or metal which are at equal temperatures are perceived to be of different ‘coldness’ due to differences in thermal properties, such as the thermal diffu...
Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest, Astrid M. L. Kappers
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CANDC
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Children's storytelling and programming with robotic characters
We introduce mixed physical and digital authoring environments for children, which invite them to create stories with enriched drawings that are programmed to control robotic char...
Kimiko Ryokai, Michael Jongseon Lee, Jonathan Mica...
93
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FGR
2008
IEEE
117views Biometrics» more  FGR 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Complex human motion estimation using visibility
This paper presents a novel algorithm for estimating complex human motion from 3D video. We base our algorithm on a model-based approach which uses a complete surface mesh of a 3D...
Tomoyuki Mukasa, Arata Miyamoto, Shohei Nobuhara, ...
92
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IROS
2008
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Cross-modal body representation based on visual attention by saliency
Abstract— In performing various kinds of tasks, body representation is one of the most fundamental issues for physical agents (humans, primates, and robots). Especially during to...
Mai Hikita, Sawa Fuke, Masaki Ogino, Minoru Asada
TABLETOP
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Creating malleable interactive surfaces using liquid displacement sensing
We present a new approach for rapidly prototyping multi-touch and object sensing surfaces. It works by liquid displacement inside a malleable projection surface. The system provid...
Otmar Hilliges, David Kim, Shahram Izadi