Given the importance of affective touch in human interactions, technology designers are
increasingly attempting to bring this modality to the core of interactive technology. Advances …

Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The
effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination, mainly involving haptic …

Multi-user Virtual Reality (VR) has shown potential to provide a secure and collaborative
environment for medical emergency training. The actual implementation and effective use of …

Emotion recognition, a rapidly evolving domain in digital health, has witnessed significant
transformations with the advent of personalized approaches and advanced machine …

Realtime visual feedback from consequences of actions is useful for future safety-critical
human–robot interaction applications such as remote physical examination of patients …

This paper presents a new approach for evaluating and controlling expressive humanoid
robotic faces using open-source computer vision and machine learning methods. Existing …

Abdominal palpation is one of the basic but important physical examination methods used
by physicians. Visual, auditory, and haptic feedback from the patients are known to be the …

Physicians use pain expressions shown in a patient's face to regulate their palpation
methods during physical examination. Training to interpret patients' facial expressions with …

Aiming at the slow speed and low accuracy of traditional facial expression recognition, a
new method combining the attention mechanism is proposed. Firstly, group convolution is …

A patient would contract surface muscles as a reaction called muscle guarding when
experiencing discomfort and pain during physical palpation. This reaction carries important …