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Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone

Haptic feedback located on the torso is proposed to enhance the state awareness of a user in virtual reality or during teleoperation while leaving the hands free for manipulation and communication. We provide haptic feedback on the torso by compressing a s ...

2019

HealthSit: Designing Posture-Based Interaction to Promote Exercise during Fitness Breaks

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yu Chen, Yuan Lu

This research was motivated by a desire to help office workers change their sedentary behavior because a prolonged sedentary posture increases the risks of developing musculoskeletal injuries and chronic diseases, thus threatening their physical and psycho ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2019

Locomotion and cadence detection using a single trunk-fixed accelerometer: validity for children with cerebral palsy in daily life-like conditions

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Lena Carcreff, Stéphane Armand

BACKGROUND: Physical therapy interventions for ambulatory youth with cerebral palsy (CP) often focus on activity-based strategies to promote functional mobility and participation in physical activity. The use of activity monitors validated for this populat ...

2019

Transnational Investments of the Tunisian Diaspora: Trajectories, Skills Accumulation and Constraints

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

This chapter is based on recent empirical data on Tunisians living in Switzerland. It focuses on their migration pathways and experiences, and it examines their propensity to engage in entrepreneurial and business activities in their home country. Despite ...

Springer International Publishing2019

Standing Height as a Prevention Measure for Overuse Injuries of the Back in Alpine Ski Racing: A Kinematic and Kinetic Study of Giant Slalom

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

Background: In alpine ski racing, typical loading patterns of the back include a combined occurrence of spinal bending, torsion, and high peak loads. These factors are known to be associated with high spinal disc loading and have been suggested to be attri ...

2018

Four-Port Broadband Orthomode Transducer Enabling Arbitrary Interelement Spacing

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

This paper reports a novel methodology to design broadband orthomode transducers with two arbitrarily spaced ports carrying orthogonal linear polarizations. The component is based on a combination of two Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers ...

2018

Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà, Javier Bello Ruiz, Thomas Schmidlin

OBJECTIVES: To develop and test a new immersive digital technology for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that combines principles from mirror therapy and immersive virtual reality and the latest research from multisensory body processing. METHODS: In t ...

2018

Temporal Dissociation of Neocortical and Hippocampal Contributions to Mental Time Travel Using Intracranial Recordings in Humans

Olaf Blanke

In mental time travel (MTT) one is "traveling" back-and-forth in time, remembering, and imagining events. Despite intensive research regarding memory processes in the hippocampus, it was only recently shown that the hippocampus plays an essential role in e ...

2018

The use of body worn sensors for detecting the vibrations acting on the lower back in alpine ski racing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

This study explored the use of body worn sensors to evaluate the vibrations that act on the human body in alpine ski racing from a general and a back overuse injury prevention perspective. In the course of a biomechanical field experiment, six male Europea ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

Design of a measuring device for Mallet Finger treatment

Khawla Belqadhi

A mallet finger is an injury that affects the extensor tendon at the Distal interphalangeal joint (DIP). It results from a hyperflexion of the said tendon which can result in a stretching or tearing of the tendon or an avulsion of the tendon’s insertion on ...

2017

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