This work presents a survey literature review on biomechanics, specifically aimed at the study of existent biomechanical tools through video analysis, in order to identify opportunities for researchers field, and discuss future proposals perspectives. Scientific (journal papers conference proceedings) field video-based biomechanics published after 2010 were selected discussed. The most common a...

Optical capturing of human body motion has many practical applications, ranging from motion analysis in sports and medicine, over ergonomy research, up to computer animation in game and movie production. Unfortunately, many existing approaches require expensive multi-camera systems and controlled studios for recording, and expect the person to wear special marker suits. Furthermore, marker-less...

To date, automatic handwriting recognition systems are far from being perfect and heavy human intervention is often required to check and correct the results of such systems. This “post-editing” process is both inefficient and uncomfortable to the user. An example is the transcription of historic documents: State-of-the-art handwritten text recognition technology is not suitable to perform this...

In our paper, we propose a solution for a robotic sailboat which is adapted to long travel across the ocean. We tried to be as innovative as possible and stray out of the classical designs. In fact, robots often have different shapes from vehicles for mankind since first of all there are no human on board which means less constraints with regards to security, ergonomy or comfort. In this paper ...

Future robots will need more and more anticipation capabilities, to properly react to human actions and provide efficient collaboration. To achieve this goal, we need new technologies that not only estimate the motion of the humans, but that fully describe the whole-body dynamics of the interaction and that can also predict its outcome. These hardware and software technologies are the goal of t...

Recent progresses in robotic-aided telesurgery help the surgeons to achieve comparable performances during laparoscopic operations and classical open sky procedures. In state of the art systems ([3]), the master console provides a lightweight mechanism whose ergonomy approaches real surgical tools; slave robots are becoming sufficiently dextrous to reproduce the surgeon’s motion with great fide...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify the usage and accessibility problems faced by the disabled (whether in pain or not) users of assistive devices (conventional wheelchairs), identify physical barriers that limit their mobility, and recognize the socio-cultural practices excluding them from the design process of such devices. Another main purpose of this paper is to improve th...

This study lies in the context of cognitive ergonomy and virtual engineering. We propose to model and implement the behaviour of autonomous virtual agents, using ideas from psychology (fuzzy cognitive maps, affordances) and neurophysiology (active perception). We describe the basis for a behavioral model imitating human beings’ perceptive operation. The psychological notion of “affordance” will...

1 Urology Department, Satu-Mare County Hospital, Satu-Mare, Romania 2 Urology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 3 Urology Department, Clinical Municipal Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +40 742 059 395 **This author had similar contributions as the main author Laparoscopic partial...

In this paper, a steerable, interactive projection display that has the shape of a disk is presented. Interactivity is provided through sensitivity to the contact of multiple fingertips and is achieved through the use of a RGBD camera. The surface is mounted on two gimbals which, in turn, provide two rotational degrees of freedom. Modulation of surface posture supports the ergonomy of the devic...