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Nowadays, people have to face many challenges In order to become familiar with all the functionalities of electronical devices. The training process becomes thus essential, especially when we are referring to consumer electronics created for people with disabilities. Our paper presents the importance of training visually impaired people for an advanced sensory substitution device. By using the advantages...
The TRAVEE system is a Virtual Reality (VR) based system that will assist patients disabled as a result of a cerebrovascular accident as well as doctors, physicians and physiotherapists working alongside the patients toward the rehabilitation of their upper limbs. The system has been developed throughout the past two years and it has reached the state of the first in-vivo tests with the patients....
Virtual reality represents an emerging technology, which can be successfully used to develop training tools in many domains, such as military, space, education or healthcare. The current paper proposes a training strategy for a sensory substitution device in order to improve the ability of visually impaired people to be autonomous, thus to increase the quality of their lives. The core of the strategy...
This paper debates upon the adoption of a social learning platform to support the highly dynamic industry of consumer electronics' providers, acknowledging the role of emerging technologies on the delivery of efficient lifelong learning solutions. The discussion is based on mixed research methods, in which structured interviews and online questionnaires were used and customized for various stakeholders...
We have reported that airway nociceptors [C fibre receptors (CFRs) and high‐threshold Aδ fibre receptors (HTARs)] are activated during oleic acid (OA)‐induced acute lung injury. In the present studies, we tested the hypothesis that this nociceptor activation is mediated by arachidonic acid products. In anaesthetized, open‐chest, mechanically ventilated rabbits, we examined the response of the nociceptors...
We propose a new method which highlights the efficiency of stochastic models in solving self-organization problems. Our method, which is based on a comparison between the local and general past states of the system, does not require any hierarchical decision maker or communication between the individuals. The environment is a rectangular lattice with a number of objects which have to be sorted by...
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