Discusses recent issues and developments of importance revolving around virtual versus brick-and-mortar approaches toward higher education.

Precise manual work is frequently required in remote and virtual environments. Cutaneous feedback to the whole hand is a key element in achieving this goal; however, most haptic I/O systems for the hand only present haptic sensations to the tips of the fingers. I propose to use an electrocutaneous display to construct a whole-hand cutaneous feedback system. The display shape is cylindrical, to ...

The overall goal of this research is to improve the design of assembly methods through the use of virtual reality (VR) and haptics (force feedback). The research is focused on two critical aspects: the development of methods for simulating natural part-topart interaction to support the human-centric approach to concurrent design and the evaluation of these methods in a manufacturing design cont...

This paper describes the haptic rendering of a virtual environment by drawing upon concepts developed in the area of teleoperation. A four-channel teleoperation architecure is shown to be an e ective means of coordinating the control of a new 3-DOF haptic interface with the simulation of a virtual dynamic environment.

This paper present a short story of the transfer of force-feedback technologies from teleoperation to virtual reality. Thanks to its experience on virtual reality applications, the Haption company, here presented, illustrates the technological advances of teleoperation for the needs of the nuclear and industrial applications.

Traditional methods of dental surgical skills training and assessment are being challenged by complications such as unavailability of expert supervision and the subjective manner of surgical skills assessment. This paper presents a dental surgical skills training system that provides a virtual reality environment with a haptic device for dental students to practice tooth preparation procedures....

Many clinical examinations involve palpation and part of the diagnostic process depends on the application of pressure. Teaching and learning such skills is difficult especially for internal examinations. A modification to a veterinary virtual reality (VR) simulator, the Haptic Cow, was planned to teach safe and effective use of pressure for bovine pregnancy diagnosis. Expert technique was capt...

One critical and to date understudied social psychological construct with significant implications for technology-mediated distributed work is impression formation. Forming useful impressions of each other is crucial for coworkers to avoidmistrust, misattribution, and conflict, and thereby, work effectively and productively. In this theoretical review paper I systematically outline how elements...

We investigated the role of geographical slant in simple navigation and spatial memory tasks, using an outdoor virtual environment. The whole environment could be slanted by an angle of 4◦. Subjects could interact with the virtual environment by pedaling with force-feedback on a bicycle simulator (translation) or by hitting buttons (discrete rotations in 60◦ steps). After memory acquisition, sp...