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Open AccessInfluence of exposure of customized dental implant abutments to different cleaning procedures: an in vitro study using AI-assisted SEM/EDS analysis
Dental implant abutments are defined as medical devices by their intended use. Surfaces of custom-made CAD/CAM two-piece abutments may become contaminated during the manufacturing process in the dental lab. In...
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Open AccessUsability of a mHealth Solution using Speech Recognition for Point-of-care Diagnostic Management
The administrative burden for physicians in the hospital can affect the quality of patient care. The Service Center Medical Informatics (SMI) of the University Hospital Würzburg developed and implemented the s...
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Comparing Mixed Reality Hand Gestures to Artificial Instruction Means for Small Target Objects
Hand gestures are a valuable means for the instruction of complex handling processes. They are used and perceived in an intuitive way and outperform artificial representations such as arrows or symbols. On the...
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Virtual Reality Extension for Digital Twins of Machine Tools
Digital twins (DTs) provide numerous opportunities for value creation in manufacturing. Services enabled by DTs include remote monitoring of assets’ conditions and predictive maintenance. In this paper, we int...
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Pointing, Pairing and Grou** Gesture Recognition in Virtual Reality
During a team discussion, participants frequently perform pointing, pairing, or grou** gestures on artifacts on a whiteboard. While the content of the whiteboard is accessible to the blind and visually impai...
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Accessibility of Co-Located Meetings
Non-verbal communication is an important carrier of information. Even though the spoken word can be heard by blind and visually impaired persons, up to 60% of the overall information still remains inaccessibly...
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Emotion Recognition - A Tool to Improve Meeting Experience for Visually Impaired
Facial expressions play an important role in human communication since they enrich spoken information and help convey additional sentiments e.g. mood. Among others, they non-verbally express a partner’s agreem...
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Open AccessA VR-based approach in conducting MTM for manual workplaces
Due to current trends in the manufacturing industry, such as mass customization, manual operations contribute drastically to the overall costs of a product. Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM) identifies the optimi...
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Open AccessTowards estimating affective states in Virtual Reality based on behavioral data
Inferring users’ perceptions of Virtual Environments (VEs) is essential for Virtual Reality (VR) research. Traditionally, this is achieved through assessing users’ affective states before and after being expos...
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Open AccessQualitätssteigerung der Abrechnungsprüfung durch Smartphone-basierte Fotodokumentation in der Unfall‑, Hand- und plastischen Chirurgie
Die Fotodokumentation von offenen Frakturen, Wunden, Dekubitalulzera, Tumoren oder Infektionen ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der digitalen Patientenakte. Bisher ist unklar, welchen Stellenwert diese Fotodokume...
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BIM-Enabled Issue and Progress Tracking Services Using Mixed Reality
This paper reports on a case study in collaboration with an industry partner to explore the value creation potentials of Mixed Reality (MR) in construction. MR is a technology that allows for intuitive interac...
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Detection and Localisation of Pointing, Pairing and Grou** Gestures for Brainstorming Meeting Applications
The detection of gestures and their interpretation is crucial for blind and visually impaired people (BVIP). In a card-based brainstorming meeting, sighted users use non-verbal communication when referring to ...
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Experiential Training of Hand Hygiene Using Virtual Reality
Hand hygiene is widely recognized as an important measure to prevent the transmission of microorganisms that may be involved in healthcare-associated infections. Yet correct hand hygiene remains challenging an...
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Cards and Roles: Co-designing Privacy Serious Games with an Online Role-Playing Boardgame
The increasing digitalisation of daily routines confronts people with frequent privacy decisions.
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Designing for App Usage Motivation to Support a Gluten-Free Diet by Comparing Various Persuasive Feedback Elements
A gluten-free diet (GFD) is critical for people who are affected by celiac disease. To understand how to support people affected by celiac disease through persuasive technology, two apps called Snackfinder and...
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Continuous Monitoring of Interactive Exhibits in Museums as Part of a Persuasive Design Approach
Museums are no longer places where guests aren’t allowed to touch anything. They have increasingly become adventure parks, where visitors are invited to directly interact with exhibits to discover new knowledg...
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Open AccessAnorectal angle at rest predicting successful sacral nerve stimulation in idiopathic fecal incontinence—a cohort analysis
Sacral nerve stimulation is an effective treatment for patients suffering from fecal incontinence. However, less is known about predictors of success before stimulation. The purpose of this study was to identi...
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Open AccessStress generation and non-intrusive measurement in virtual environments using eye tracking
In real life, it is well understood how stress can be induced and how it is measured. While virtual reality (VR) applications can resemble such stress inducers, it is still an open question if and how stress c...
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Optimizing human–robot task allocation using a simulation tool based on standardized work descriptions
Human–robot collaboration is enabled by the digitization of production and has become a key technology for the factory of the future. It combines the strengths of both the human worker and the assistant robot ...
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Recognition and Localisation of Pointing Gestures Using a RGB-D Camera
Non-verbal communication is part of our regular conversation, and multiple gestures are used to exchange information. Among those gestures, pointing is the most important one. If such gestures cannot be percei...
