Avatarm: an avatar with manipulation capabilities for the physical metaverse

A Villani, G Cortigiani, B Brogi… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaverse is an immersive shared space that remote users can access through virtual and
augmented reality interfaces, enabling their avatars to interact with each other and the …

Functional Now, Wearable Later: Examining the Design Practices of Wearable Technologists

R Pettys-Baker, ME Clarke, B Holschuh - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Making a body-worn device wearable is a deceptively difficult challenge: it is not enough to
make a functional device and simply put it on the body; it must also work with the wearer to …

An interaction theory account of (mediated) social touch

G Huisman - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Research on mediated social touch (MST) has, either implicitly or explicitly, built on
theoretical assumptions regarding social interactions that align with “theory theory” or …

Social touch

JBF Van Erp, KE MacLean, GJ Gerling… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
that the digital transition brings new opportunities for digital touch, such as mediating social
touch between (romantic) dyads separated by distance. Along these lines, Van Hattum et al …

Hans: a haptic system for human-to-human remote handshake

M Dragusanu, Z Iqbal, A Villani… - 2022 9th IEEE RAS …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Handshake is a gesture used worldwide for greeting and communication purposes that is
impossible in remote and forced distance contexts. In this paper, we exploited recent results …

How virtual work environments convey perceptual cues to foster shared intentionality during Covid-19 for blind and partially sighted employees

E Lee, P Coppin - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2022 - escholarship.org
The Covid-19 pandemic altered workplaces. For those with 'office jobs,'this meant working
'virtually,'or remotely, from home. This transition forced organizations and workplaces to …

Novel Devices for Haptics Repurposing (From Metaverses Towards a Mechanobiological Cancer Treatment)

A Villani - 2024 - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
In the pharmaceutics and drug research fields, the term “repurposing” refers to the practice
of testing the effects of an already assessed drug and its molecules on pathologies different …

How Virtual Work Environments Convey Perceptual Cues to Foster Shared Intentionality During Covid-19 for Blind and Partially Sighted Employees

E Lee - 2021 - openresearch.ocadu.ca
The Covid-19 pandemic altered workplaces. For those with 'office jobs,'this meant working
'virtually,'or remotely, from home. This transition forced organizations and workplaces to …