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- A haptic-robotic platform for upper-limb reaching stroke therapy: preliminary design and evaluation results.
- Tri-modal integration of visual, tactile and auditory signals for the perception of sequences of events.
- Dynamic action in virtual environments: Constraints on the accessibility of action knowledge in children and adults.
- The effect of a feedback signal in a computer mouse on hovering behaviour, productivity, comfort and usability in a field study.
- The Assessment of Stability and Reliability of a Virtual Reality-Based Intravenous Injection Simulator.
- Bio-inspired sensorization of a biomechatronic robot hand for the grasp-and-lift task.
- Backward and common-onset masking of vibrotactile stimuli.
- A brief taxonomy of tactile illusions and demonstrations that can be done in a hardware store.
- Human touch vs. axillary digital thermometry for detection of neonatal hypothermia at community level.
- The assessment of stability and reliability of a virtual reality-based intravenous injection simulator.
2. Medical applications
- Virtual Reality-based Telesurgery via Teleprogramming Scheme Combined with Semi-autonomous Control.
- Robotics and telesurgery--an update on their position in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.
- Robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery: use of a telemanipulator slave robot to perform microvascular anastomoses.
- A comprehensive review of anti-reflux procedures completed by computer-assisted tele-surgery.
- Stereoscopic vision provides a significant advantage for precision robotic laparoscopy.
- Visual clues act as a substitute for haptic feedback in robotic surgery.
- [Robotic procedures in the colorectal surgery]
- Soft-tissue characterization during monopolar electrocautery procedures.
- Mechanical response of brain to mechanical stimuli--animal model investigation.
- An image-guided magnetic resonance-compatible surgical robot.
3. Perception and cognition
Featured new book:
Millar,
Susanna. Space and Sense. Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis), 2008.
This book approaches the topic of spatial
coding from the point of view of touch.
- Illusory motion reversals from unambiguous motion with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile stimuli.
- Vibrissal kinematics in 3D: tight coupling of azimuth, elevation, and torsion across different whisking modes.
- Tactile stimulation evokes long-term synaptic plasticity in the granular layer of cerebellum.
- A haptic-robotic platform for upper-limb reaching stroke therapy: preliminary design and evaluation results.
- Bio-inspired sensorization of a biomechatronic robot hand for the grasp-and-lift task.
- Competency assessment in simulation-based procedural education.
- Bio-inspired sensorization of a biomechatronic robot hand for the grasp-and-lift task.
- Backward and common-onset masking of vibrotactile stimuli.
- Tri-modal integration of visual, tactile and auditory signals for the perception of sequences of events.
- Belief inflexibility in schizophrenia.
- Therapeutic touch stimulates the proliferation of human cells in culture.
- Allodynia corresponding to the levels of cervical cord injury treated by surgical decompression: a report of 3 cases.
- Tactile stimulation evokes long-term synaptic plasticity in the granular layer of cerebellum.
- Managing environmental enhancement plans for individual research projects at a national primate research center.
- Bio-inspired sensorization of a biomechatronic robot hand for the grasp-and-lift task.