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Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User's Physiological Affective States

Self-tracking aims to increase awareness, decrease undesired behaviors, and ultimately lead towards a healthier lifestyle. However, inappropriate communication of self-tracking results might cause the opposite effect. Subtle self-tracking feedback is an al ...

IEEE2020

Sweat monitoring with CMOS compatible technology: ISFETS and beyond

Francesco Bellando

In recent years, sweat has gained increasing attention from the scientific community as a new analyte for health monitoring. The main advantage with respect to the "Gold Standard" for laboratory analysis, i.e. blood, is of course the possibility of perform ...

EPFL2020

Evaluation of 1-Year in-Home Monitoring Technology by Home-Dwelling Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and Nurses

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Philipp Buluschek, Bruno Pais

Introduction:Population aging is increasing the needs and costs of healthcare. Both frailty and the chronic diseases affecting older people reduce their ability to live independently. However, most older people prefer to age in their own homes. New develop ...

2020

Wearable multifunctional sweat-sensing system for efficient healthcare monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo, Nicolò Oliva, Simone Aiassa

Despite the huge expansion in recent years of sweat sensing and wearable technologies, several challenges are still open, including poor sample collection, separate sampling and analysis, low multi-sensing capabilities and materials toxicity. In this work, ...

2020

High-efficiency super-elastic liquid metal based triboelectric fibers and textiles

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Nicola Bartolomei, Marco Volpi, Rajasundar Chandran

Fibers that harvest mechanical energy via the triboelectric effect are excellent candidates aspower sources for wearable electronics and functional textiles. Thus far however, their fab-rication remains complex, and exhibited performances are below the sta ...

2020

Detection of S1 and S2 locations in phonocardiogram signals using zero frequency filter

Gürkan Yilmaz

Heart auscultation is a widely used technique for diagnosing cardiac abnormalities. In that context, capturing of phonocardiogram (PCG) signals and automatically monitoring of the heart by identifying S1 and S2 complexes is an emerging field. One of the fi ...

2020

Reflection for action: designing tools to support teacher reflection on everyday evidence

Pierre Dillenbourg

Improving educational practice through reflection is one important focus of teacher professional development approaches. However, such teacher reflection operates under practical classroom constraints that make it happen infrequently, including the relianc ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Hand-worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini, Antoine Weber

Drone teleoperation is usually accomplished using remote radio controllers, devices that can be hard to master for inexperienced users. Moreover, the limited amount of information fed back to the user about the robot's state, often limited to vision, can r ...

2020

Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Head‐mounted displays for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) allow users to see highly realistic virtual worlds. The wearable haptics that enable feeling and touching these virtual objects are typically bulky, tethered, and provide only low fi ...

2020

A sEMG-driven Soft ExoSuit based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez

The scope of this work is to show the applicability of the Twisted String Actuators (TSAs) for lightweight, wearable and assistive robotic applications. To this aim, we have developed a novel surface electromyography (sEMG)-driven soft ExoSuit using the TS ...

2020

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