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HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 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 9 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
16 years 18 days 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
16 years 10 days 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 7 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,...