Our study investigated the effect of vibration elements on the recognition of texture in a planar type actuator. A planar type actuator is highly advantageous in naturally conveying the texture of a graphic object on a ...

This paper describes an improvement to our previously proposed laparoscopic training system that was designed to improve surgical skill transmission by allowing surgical trainees to replicate the movements of skilled ...

This paper proposes a method to generate a turning walk sensation to the user by an arm swing display. We assumed a hypothesis that the turning walk sensation is generated by providing different motion profiles of passive ...

For isolated patients, for example COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit, conventional televideo tools can provide a degree of visual telepresence, but at best approximate a ''through a window'' metaphor-visitors ...

Visually impaired people may have difficulty participating in orchestral or other performance activities because they cannot see the beat represented by the conductor's hand movements. Therefore, we proposed a method of ...