Sir, Ultrasonography (USG) is nowadays routinely used in anesthesia and critical care practice for nerve blocks, central venous cannulation, and tapping of pleural or pericardial effusions. There have been reports of bacterial infections transmitted through ultrasound probe and coupling gel.[1] To prevent or minimize the risk of infection, USG probe and its cable are generally wrapped in commer...

INTRODUCTION This study assessed the ability of gloves to simulate rheumatoid arthritis of the hand. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Assessments were made in the dominant hand of 24 healthy volunteers with no glove, glove A (simulating stiffness only) and glove B (simulating stiffness and pain). Results were compared to data held on 23 rheumatoid arthritis patients. Sollerman score was used as a standar...

In this paper we describe The Reading Glove: a non-linear adaptive tangible narrative system in which interactors piece together a narrative puzzle by interacting with a collection of physical artifacts. The Reading Glove uses an adaptive system to assist the reader in making sense of the complicated web of narrative information.

Human strength and capabilities such as dexterity, manipulability, and tactile perception are unique and render the hand as a very versatile, effective, multipurpose tool. This is especially true for unknown microgravity environments such as the EVA environment. Facilitation of these activities, with simultaneous protection from the cruel EVA environment, are the two, often conflicting, objecti...

GloVe is an algorithm which associates a vector to each word such that the dot product of two words corresponds to the likelihood they appear together in a large corpus ([PSM14]). GloVe vectors achieve state-of-the-art performance on word analogy tasks (v(king) − v(man) + v(woman) ≈ v(queen)), but they are limited to capturing meanings of individual words. In our project, we develop “biGloVe,” ...

BACKGROUND Despite best efforts by healthcare providers to sterilise their hands through hand washing prior to touching medical equipment and patients, bacteria are still present and can be spread through physical contact. We aimed to reduce the spread of touch-induced and airborne bacteria and virus spreading by using a touch-free glove-dispensing system that minimally exposes gloves in the bo...

Dermal exposure to skin irritants and contact allergens is frequent in hairdressing. Hair dyeing is popular today and involves exposure to highly potent contact allergens, such as p-phenylenediamine (PPD). Use of protective gloves to prevent contact with skin-damaging substances is essential. The aim of the present study was to determine the resistance to permeation by PPD, toluene-2,5-diamines...

In this paper, we introduce 3D motion rendering system based on a data glove. Our glove measures the movement of fingers by using flex sensors. Integrated FPGA gathers the data from sensors and performs pre-processing of the sensor data. The acquired data are forwarded to PC through Bluetooth communication and an application program displays the gesture. Keywords-Ueser Experience, Wearable Devi...