In this paper we will examine how spatialized audioconferencing can be adapted for use by teleworkers with physical disabilities. We describe a field trial with a Japanese company using the Vocal Village (www.vocalvillage.net) spatialized audioconferencing system, where the voices of individual participants appear as if they are coming from different positions in space, distributed from left to...

This study investigated how movement error is evaluated and used to change feedforward commands following a change in the environmental dynamics. In particular, we addressed the question of whether only position-error information is used or whether information about the force-field direction can also be used for rapid adaptation to changes in the environmental dynamics. Subjects learned to move...

In the current issue of the European Respiratory Journal, RAGHU et al. [1] report the results of the Macitentan USe in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Clinical (MUSIC) trial, a randomised placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial of macitentan, an oral endothelin antagonist, for biopsy-proven idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). With its multicentre enrolment, appropriate allocation concealment, ...