OBJECTIVES To introduce an innovative clinical service that can be used to reduce medication errors and improve quality of care in the rural environment, in order to assist in eliminating or alleviating disparities in health based on geographical location. SUMMARY Virtual medication therapy management (MTM) will be a tool to assist underserved populations, specifically residents of rural comm...

We present a methodology for motion tracking and visualization of the hip joint by combining MR images and optical motion capture systems. MRI is typically used to capture the subject’s anatomy while optical systems are used to capture and analyse the relative movement between adjacent bones of the joint. Reflective markers are attached to the subject’s skin and their trajectories are tracked a...

We present computational methods to extract and model different joints of a generic subject, in an automatic way. The input for our methods is simply a set of trajectories of 3D points, obtained from a motion capture system (MOCAP). Due to the piecewise rigidity of the skeleton, these trajectories belong to different subspaces (of the space of all possible trajectories). We use this knowledge t...

Motion tracking method is being issued as essential part of the entertainment, medical, sports, education and industry with the development of 3-D virtual reality. Virtual human character in the digital animation and game application has been controlled by interfacing devices; mouse, joysticks, midi-slider, and so on. Those devices could not enable virtual human character to move smoothly and n...

The aim of this work is to increase the effectiveness of real world medical training simulations by helping trainees gain a better understanding of the importance of communication and teamwork. Therefore we develop an online application which can be used together with real world simulations to improve training. To produce the online application we reconstructed two real world scenarios (one wit...

Current 3D capture and modeling technology can rapidly generate highly photo-realistic 3D avatars of human subjects. However, while the avatars look like their human counterparts, their movements often do not mimic their own due to existing challenges in accurate motion capture and re-targeting. A better understanding of factors that influence the perception of biological motion would be valuab...

Rolling-based seismic isolation systems, in which rollers of circular or non-circular section are used, are less expensive and easier to manufacture. However, this type of isolation suffers from either lack of restoring or re-centering capability, or weakness against uplift forces. To resolve the first shortcoming the use of elliptical as well as pillow-shape rolling parts has been suggested, a...

Correspondence Sahil Narang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Email: [email protected] Abstract Current 3D capture and modeling technology can rapidly generate highly photorealistic 3D avatars of human subjects. However, while the avatars look like their human counterparts, their movements often do not mimic their own due to existing challenges in accurate motion capture and r...

Physically based characters have not yet received wide adoption in the entertainment industry because control remains both difficult and unreliable. Even with the incorporation of motion capture for reference, which adds believability, characters fail to be convincing in their appearance when the control is not robust. To address these issues, we propose a simple Jacobian transpose torque contr...