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Wearable Soft Technologies for Haptic Sensing and Feedback

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Wafer-Level Microfabrication of Zipping Electrohydraulic Actuators for Soft Milli-Robots

Mechanoreceptive soft robotic molluscoids made of granular hydrogel-based organoelectronics

An embodied body morphology task for investigating self-avatar proportions perception in Virtual Reality

DiffCheck: A scan-CAD evaluation tool for digital manufacturing and assembly processes in timber construction

Quantum Spin Dynamics Due to Strong Kitaev Interactions in the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet CsCeSe2

The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks

Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life

Human Interactive Robotic Surfaces for Physical Immersion

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

Effects of Head-Tracking Artefacts on Externalization and Localization in Azimuth With Binaural Wearable Devices

'connEcted caesarean section': creating a virtual link between MOthers and their infanTs to ImprOve maternal childbirth experieNce - study protocol for a PILOT trial (e-motion-pilot)

Immersive VR for upper-extremity rehabilitation in patients with neurological disorders: a scoping review

Physical Body Orientation Impacts Virtual Navigation Experience and Performance

SORI: A softness-rendering interface to unravel the nature of softness perception

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Projector-based augmented stacking framework for irregularly shaped objects

A Stand-Alone Augmented Reality Intervention for Chronic Pain using Embodied Systolic Stimulation

Investigating neural resource allocation in the sensorimotor control of extra limbs

PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting

From finger animation to full-body embodiment of avatars with different morphologies and proportions