Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

We present SpiderVision, a wearable device that extends the human field of view to
augment a user's awareness of things happening behind one's back. SpiderVision …

Maintaining awareness of real world boundaries whilst being immersed in virtual reality (VR)
with head mounted displays (HMDs), is a necessity for the physical integrity of the user. This …

In this paper we present the iterative design process of our wearable sensory substitution
system ProximityHat, which uses pressure actuators around the head to convey spatial …

Personal fabrication empowers users to create objects increasingly easier and faster. This
continuous decrease in effort evokes a speculative scenario of Ephemeral Fabrication (EF) …

Human perception lacks the capabilities to accurately assess distance. The recent Covid-19
pandemic outbreak rendered this ability particularly important. Augmenting our sense of …

The word cybernetics comes from the Greek word Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης), and it translates
as helmsman or governor. The term was first coined in the 1800s by the French physicist …

Wearable computing has a huge potential to shape the way we interact with mobile devices
in the future. Interaction with mobile devices is still mainly limited to visual output and tactile …

Telepresence robots allow people to participate in remote spaces, yet they can be difficult to
manoeuvre with people and obstacles around. We designed a haptic-feedback system …

In presence of conflicting or ambiguous visual cues in complex scenes, performing 3D
selection and manipulation tasks can be challenging. To improve motor planning and …