Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging technology with numerous applications. Electroencephalogram (EEG) motor imagery (MI) is among the most common BCI paradigms and has been used extensively in healthcare applications such as post-stroke ...

Physics-driven predictions of soft tissue mechanics are vital for various medical interventions. Insights on the mechanical properties of soft tissues are essential for obtaining personalised predictions from these models. This study aims to provide a ...

While natural body-based movements are essential features for immersive VR (Virtual Reality) experiences, most of the available input techniques for navigation in VR involve the use of hand-held controllers. Alternatively, while body-based input for VR ...

The use of multi-robot systems is a field that can benefit from VR by strengthening understanding of the situation and enabling seamless interaction with the actors involved. This work investigates how the usability of a design for interaction with a ...

When blending virtual and physical content, certain incongruencies emerge from hardware limitations, inaccurate tracking, or different appearances of virtual and physical content. They restrain us from perceiving virtual and physical content as one ...

"ShadowPlayVR" is a virtual reality system designed to introduce the intricate art of Chinese shadow puppetry into Virtual Reality (VR), focusing on the non-intuitive embodied interactions that emulate puppetry performance. By incorporating an immersive, ...

While consumer-grade virtual reality (VR) hardware can deliver immersive audiovisual experiences, these systems often lack the ability to display realistic haptic feedback, or incorporate cost-efficient vibrotactile actuators with very limited abilities ...

In this study, we attempt to enhance emotion in online live music concerts by focusing on the influence of entrainment to the rhythm of music on emotion. We propose a light stick-type device that changes the audience's own light stick swinging motion and ...

On the way towards novel hand redirection (HR) techniques that make use of change blindness, the next step is to take advantage of saccades for hiding body warping. A prerequisite for saccadic HR algorithms, however, is to know how much the user’s ...

Vital signals tend to become destabilized and generally increase when one’s physical condition is not well. For example, experiencing virtual reality (VR) sickness brings about a deteriorated physical condition, often accompanied by an increased heart ...

The main aims of the presented study are to verify whether the amount of textures in a virtual scene affects task performance and to test whether visual imagery changes the relationship between realism and task performance. An experimental study with ...

In this pilot study we compare two prototype applications developed in collaboration with Rigshospitalet, the main hospital in Denmark, aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR)- versus an audio-haptic based solution, as a pain ...

Drones are controlled remotely through the on-board live camera often using a headset to immersively (without external distraction) situate the drone operator with a first-person view. The highly dynamic imagery of drone piloting can elicit significant ...

We propose a novel open-source software toolkit to support researchers in the domains of human-computer interaction (HCI) and virtual reality (VR) in conducting psychophysical experiments. Our toolkit is designed to work with the widely-used Unity ...

We investigate the impact of voice imitation on rapport building in customer service in a virtual environment(VE). We simulated a VE store and conducted a within-subject experiment in three customer service scenarios with 16 participants. The imitation ...

Pregnant women use a range of non-pharmacological pain relief methods to help manage and reduce pain intensity and to induce relaxation. We conducted a study with 18 pregnant women to explore VR experiences as a non-pharmacological method of pain relief ...

We assess the effectiveness of attention guidance cues in an educational platform in local high schools with real students. Three eye-tracked visual cues, previously assessed for their ability to guide and restore attention, are compared against a ...

Underfoot haptics, a largely unexplored area, offers rich tactile information close to that of hand-based interactions. Haptic feedback gives a sense of physicality to virtual environments making for a more realistic and immersive experience. Augmented ...

This paper presents, Waddle, a virtual experience to promote informal learning by embodying the user as an Adélie Penguin to partake in a narrative-based virtual reality application that shares the story of the lives of these unique animals. We test the ...

This paper describes the design and evaluation of Netz, a novel mixed reality musical instrument that leverages artificial intelligence for reducing errors in gesture interpretation by the system. We followed a participatory design approach over three ...