Category: frontiersin
Socio-Cognitive Engineering of a Robotic Partner for Child's Diabetes Self-Management
Social or humanoid robots do hardly show up in “the wild,” aiming at pervasive and enduring human benefits such as child health. This paper presents a socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) methodology […]
Help! I Need a Remote Guide in My Mixed Reality Collaborative Environment
The help of a remote expert in performing a maintenance task can be useful in many situations, and can save time as well as money. In this context, augmented reality […]
Symbolic-Based Recognition of Contact States for Learning Assembly Skills
Imitation learning is gaining more attention because it enables robots to learn skills from human demonstrations. One of the major industrial activities that can benefit from imitation learning is the […]
Synchronization in Interpersonal Speech
During both positive and negative dyadic exchanges, individuals will often unconsciously imitate their partner. A substantial amount of research has been made on this phenomenon, and such studies have shown […]
Virtual Reality Applications for Neurological Disease: A Review
Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) immersive technologies provide new tools for the development of novel and promising applications for neurological rehabilitation. The purpose of this paper is to review […]
Guided Stochastic Optimization for Motion Planning
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a family of methods used to teach robots specific tasks. It is used to assist them with the increasing difficulty of performing manipulation tasks in […]
A SWOT Analysis of the Field of Virtual Reality for Firefighter Training
Virtual reality (VR) research has gone through rapid advances and the technology has established itself as a valuable training tool in many domains. While research in the field of emergency […]
Iterative Learning Control for Motion Trajectory Tracking of a Circular Soft Crawling Robot
Soft robots have recently received much attention with their infinite degrees of freedoms and continuously deformable structures, which allow them to adapt well to the unstructured environment. A new type […]
Mind the Gap: Gap Affordance Judgments of Children, Teens, and Adults in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Affordances are possibilities for action that depend on both an observer’s capabilities and the properties of the environment. Immersive Virtual Environments (IVEs) have been used to examine affordances in adults, […]
Laypeople's Collaborative Immersive Virtual Reality Design Discourse in Neighborhood Design
The article discusses design communication and participation of laypeople in a virtual participatory urban design process. We speculate that an immersive virtual environment facilitated instrument can allow laypeople to take […]