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Using Non-Traditional Interfaces to Support Physical Therapy for Knee Strengthening
(2016)
Physical therapy consists mainly in the execution of
rehabilitation processes that aim to help overcome injuries, as
well as develop, maintain, or restore maximum body movement.
Knee rehabilitation is one kind of physical ...
Ubiquitous Notification Mechanism to Provide User Awareness
(2016)
Awareness could be defined as the knowledge that the user has of a particular activity, either individual or collaborative. Good awareness mechanisms provide information to the user at the right time so that s/he can know ...
Supporting phobia treatment with virtual reality: systematic desensitization using oculus rift
(2017)
An irrational fear is called a phobia. Cognitive therapy teaches patients
how to respond to triggering stimuli, by relaxing their mind and entering a state of
reduced anxiety. Some of these methods depend on patient’s ...
Web accessibility for people with reduced mobility: A case study using eye tracking
(2016)
Traditional web interfaces often rely on keyboard/mouse input to work. This characteristic forces people with reduced mobility to adapt or do not use the applications at all. This paper proposes a prototype to increase web ...
User Experience in Communication and Collaboration Platforms: A Comparative Study Including Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom
(2022-03)
Due to the measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic, how education and work communications are carried have changed. An increase in video conferencing and meeting applications is ...
Alternative and augmentative communication for people with disabilities and language problems: an eye gaze tracking approach
(2016)
Alternative and augmentative communications encapsulates the use of
technology to provide communication means for people with some sort of disability.
In this paper, we present a prototype that provides both pictographic ...
Sign Language Recognition Using Leap Motion
(2015-12-01)
Several million people around the world use signs as their main mean of communication. The advances in technologies to recognize such signs will make possible the computer supported interpretation of sign languages. There ...
Automatic recognition of the American sign language fingerspelling alphabet to assist people living with speech or hearing impairments
(2017-03-22)
Sign languages are natural languages used mostly by deaf and hard of hearing people. Different development opportunities for people with these disabilities are limited because of communication problems. The advances in ...
Troyoculus: An Augmented Reality System to Improve Reading Capabilities of Night-Blind People
(2015-11)
Our goal in this project was to develop an augmented reality system, called Troyoculus, to help night-blind people improve their reading capabilities. We developed two prototypes, one based on Oculus Rift and other based ...
Evaluating the Nao Robot in the Role of Personal Assistant: The Effect of Gender in Robot Performance Evaluation
(2019-11-20)
By using techniques such as the Wizard of Oz (WoZ) and video capture, this paper evaluated the performance of the Nao Robot in the role of a personal assistant, which was valuated alongside the impact of the assigned gender ...