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A study on the effects of cognitive overloading and distractions on human movement during robot-assisted dressing (2022)
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For robots that can provide physical assistance, maintaining synchronicity of the robot and human movement is a precursor for interaction safety. Existing research on collaborative HRI does not consider how synchronicity can be affected if humans are... Read More about A study on the effects of cognitive overloading and distractions on human movement during robot-assisted dressing.

A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults (2021)
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This work explored the use of human–robot interaction research to investigate robot ethics. A longitudinal human–robot interaction study was conducted with self-reported healthy older adults to determine whether expression of artificial emotions by a... Read More about A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults.

Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot (2021)
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Hazard analysis methods such as HAZOP and STPA have proven to be effective methods for assurance of system safety for years. However, the dimensionality and human factors uncertainty of many assistive robotic applications challenges the capability of... Read More about Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot.

Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults (2020)
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Emotional deception and emotional attachment are regarded as ethical concerns in human robot interaction. Considering these concerns is essential, particularly as little is known about longitudinal effects of interactions with social robots. We ran a... Read More about Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults.

Motion Capture Pillow (MCP): A novel method to improve comfort and accuracy in radiotherapy (2019)
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The delivery of radiotherapy has changed significantly over the last few decades. Recent advances in radiotherapy practice may increase patient discomfort. A key challenge to improve patient comfort is the common use of a thermoplastic mask for patien... Read More about Motion Capture Pillow (MCP): A novel method to improve comfort and accuracy in radiotherapy.

Social robots: The influence of human and robot characteristics on acceptance (2019)
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Research in social robotics is focused on the development of robots that can provide physical and cognitive support in a socially interactive way. Whilst some studies have previously investigated the importance of user characteristics (age, gender, e... Read More about Social robots: The influence of human and robot characteristics on acceptance.

'Elbows Out' - Predictive tracking of partially occluded pose for Robot-Assisted dressing (2018)
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© 2016 IEEE. Robots that can assist in the activities of daily living, such as dressing, may support older adults, addressing the needs of an aging population in the face of a growing shortage of care professionals. Using depth cameras during robot-a... Read More about 'Elbows Out' - Predictive tracking of partially occluded pose for Robot-Assisted dressing.

Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance (2018)
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© Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Claire A.G.J. Huijnen, and Herjan van den Heuvel. This article reports findings from a usability and user experience evaluations conducted in the last 2 years of a 4-year assistive robotics research project u... Read More about Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance.

Robot-Assisted Fracture Surgery: Surgical Requirements and System Design (2018)
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© 2018, Biomedical Engineering Society. The design of medical devices is a complex and crucial process to ensure patient safety. It has been shown that improperly designed devices lead to errors and associated accidents and costs. A key element for a... Read More about Robot-Assisted Fracture Surgery: Surgical Requirements and System Design.

Personalized robot assistant for support in dressing (2018)
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Robot-assisted dressing is performed in close physical interaction with users who may have a wide range of physical characteristics and abilities. Design of user adaptive and personalized robots in this context is still indicating limited, or no cons... Read More about Personalized robot assistant for support in dressing.

Intra-operative fiducial-based CT/fluoroscope image registration framework for image-guided robot-assisted joint fracture surgery (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). Purpose: Joint fractures must be accurately reduced minimising soft tissue damages to avoid negative surgical outcomes. To this regard, we have developed the RAFS surgical system, which allows the percutaneous reduction of intr... Read More about Intra-operative fiducial-based CT/fluoroscope image registration framework for image-guided robot-assisted joint fracture surgery.

A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance (2017)
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© 2017 Chance, Jevtić, Caleb-Solly and Dogramadzi. Assistive robots have a great potential to address issues related to an aging population and an increased demand for caregiving. Successful deployment of robots working in close proximity with people... Read More about A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance.

Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system (2017)
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This paper presents a safety analysis of a Robotic Fracture Surgery System using the Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). It focuses particularly on hazards caused by the human in the loop. The robotic system and operating staff are modeled inc... Read More about Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system.

Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors (2016)
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© 2016 IEEE. Here, we present a method for lump characterization using a bio-inspired remote tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. While current capsule endoscopy utilizes cameras to diagnose lesions on the surface of the gastrointestinal tract l... Read More about Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors.

Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery (2016)
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© 2016, The Author(s). Purpose: In the surgical treatment for lower-leg intra-articular fractures, the fragments have to be positioned and aligned to reconstruct the fractured bone as precisely as possible, to allow the joint to function correctly ag... Read More about Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery.

Vision-based real-time position control of a semi-automated system for robot-assisted joint fracture surgery (2015)
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Purpose: Joint fracture surgery quality can be improved by robotic system with high-accuracy and high-repeatability fracture fragment manipulation. A new real-time vision-based system for fragment manipulation during robot-assisted fracture surgery w... Read More about Vision-based real-time position control of a semi-automated system for robot-assisted joint fracture surgery.

Systematic review of thermoplastic masks versus alternative immobilisation methods in head and neck irradiation (2014)
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Is a thermoplastic mask versus an alternative immobilisation effective in increasing reproducibility and comfort in head and neck patients receiving radiotherapy?

Environmental Hazard Analysis - a Variant of Preliminary Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robots (2014)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Robot manufacturers will be required to demonstrate objectively that all reasonably foreseeable hazards have been identified in any robotic product design that is to be marketed commercially. This is... Read More about Environmental Hazard Analysis - a Variant of Preliminary Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robots.

Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining (2012)
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Artificial tactile whisker sensors demonstrate an approach to localisation that is robust to harsh environmental disturbances, endowing autonomous systems with the ability to operate effectively in confined, noisy and visually occluded spaces, such a... Read More about Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining.

Developments in vocabulary standardisation for robots and robotic devices (2009)
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