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Alessandro Mansutti
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Article
Open AccessTackling Marine Microplastics Pollution: an Overview of Existing Solutions
Microplastics pollution is one of the main environmental challenges of our time, even though microplastics were observed for the first time almost 50 years ago. Microplastics—little plastic fragments smaller t...
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Book
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Conceptual Development of the Tactile Interface
In order to develop the tactile interface that allows users to touch a 3D shape by means of a continuous and free hand interaction, it is needed to conduct a preliminary study for evaluating the concept. In th...
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Augmented Reality Visualisation System
As explained in Chap. 3, the aim of the development of the tactile interface is to allow users to perform the tactile evaluation together with the visual one. Than...
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Introduction
This chapter will introduce the research work described in this book. The final output of the research work is a new concept of a desktop Tactile Shape Display. This device allows the designer to perform the t...
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Research Context and Concept of the System
Product design process is typically based on loops between the design and the evaluation phases, which require the creation of digital models and physical prototypes. In the last years, real prototypes have be...
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Module with Indirect Actuation System
This chapter presents the concept of the solution based on indirect actuation approach. This configuration aims at positioning the control points of the rendered trajectory in the space. The degree of freedom ...
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Discussion and Users Test
In this chapter we will describe the characteristics of the developed system in terms of: performances, modularity, portability and implementation costs. In order to perform an accurate analysis of the rendere...
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Conclusions and Future Works
In this last chapter we will summarize the results of the described research work which consist in the development of an innovative Tactile Shape Display. Moreover, we will describe the future works that we ar...
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Related Works
Tactile interaction consists in providing the user of a Virtual Reality (VR) system with sensations related to touch, mainly during the evaluation and the manipulation of virtual objects. In some cases the ter...
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Module with Direct Actuation System
In order to cope with the issues arisen by analysing the first version of the system presented in Chap. 5, a new version of the module has been designed and it wil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recording Device for Natural Haptic Textures Felt with the Bare Fingertip
The perception of haptic textures depends on the mechanical interaction between a surface and a biological sensor. A texture is apprehended by sliding one’s fingers over the surface of an object. We describe h...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interacting Game and Haptic System Based on Point-Based Approach for Assisting Patients after Stroke
This paper describes a system that combines haptic, virtual reality and game technologies in order to assist repetitive performances of manual tasks to patients, which are recovering from neurological motor de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multimodal Guidance System for Improving Manual Skills in Disabled People
The paper describes a multimodal guidance system whose aim is to improve manual skills of people with specific disorders, such as Down syndrome, mental retardation, blind, autistic, etc. The multimodal guidanc...
