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Nowadays, there is a significant increase in the number of Bioinformatics tools and databases. Researchers from various interdisciplinary fields need to use these tools. Usability is an important quality of software in general, and bioinformatics ...

We have been developing a liver surgical support system. By matching the depth images of the real liver and the 3D liver model during surgery, the position of the liver, invisible blood vessels and tumors is estimated. The tip position of the ...

We present an algorithm, based on simulated annealing, that causes a virtual liver to mimic an actual liver. We evaluate its precision using the concordance rate of range images of both virtual and actual livers. This concordance rate is evaluated ...

In this study, we constructed and tested the usability of a surgical area-measuring robot-mechanical system, which does not obstruct the movements of doctors, assistants, or nurses during surgery, under two operating lights in an operating room. ...

We have developed the liver surgical navigation system composed of three subsystems: the liver position and orientation estimator, the surgical knife position estimator and the liver surgical navigator. These subsystems work separately for ...

In the last year, we developed some multiple camera system to measure a surgical area and get several capturing results in our laboratory. In this paper, in order to evaluate the multiple camera system, we first check how to calibrate three RGB/...

The m-Health apps have been adopted broadly in both medical and family environment. They hold potential to support the work of medical staff and provide help in individual health care. However, the emphasis on the benefits of mobility and the ...

There are two main aspects of safety and effectiveness in laparoscopic surgery. The first is ensuring an appropriate operation field and maintaining this throughout the procedure. The second is finding the correct tissue plane and applying ...

In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), every device have sensing and computing capabilities to enhance many aspects of human life. There are more and more IoT devices in our homes and at our workplaces, and they still depend on human ...

Within today’s environment of relentless urban growth, socio-technical approaches towards enhancing wellbeing within the urban have started gathering momentum. Situated in this context, the research paper presents an approach to actively instigate ...

The aim of this project is to create a relaxing product to release East-Asian international students’ stress in order to be in a better health. The direction of this project focuses on handling the students’ negative emotions produced by stress to ...

Continuous participation in stroke rehabilitation programs enables function recovery and quality of life. However, research showed that stroke rehabilitation services do not necessarily meet the needs and the expectations of stroke patients. To ...

The number of young adults becoming overweight leading to obesity is on an unceasing rise. Attempts have been made to tackle this epidemic throughout the UK through varied technology platforms including video games and more recently through ...

There used to exist a vision of telemedicine in which healthcare became universally connected. mHealth is a manifestation of that vision. However, studies that demonstrate theoretical user acceptance factors of mHealth are limited. We are still ...

Obesity has become a major public health issue in most countries around the world. In addition, adolescent obesity is increasing in an alarming rate all over the world. Many attempts have been made to address this issue that ranges from doing ...

The office sitting position of the staff is closely related to the design of the office chair. We use the dynamic capture system of Microsoft Kinect sensor to study office sitting posture, in order to capture sitting posture and form three-...

This paper presents a mobile gamified application encouraging positive coping strategies for patients of serious and possibly fatal illnesses. The application concept is based on the analogy between one’s lifetime memories and future bucket lists ...

In the recent twenty years, people have developed a close relationship with digital technology in conducting sports and training. Initially, approximately 1995–2005, the first wave of Sport IT included technology as GPS watches and pulse ...

Different body segments have different thermal characteristics and sleeping postures change unconsciously during the night. Thus, the movements of the extremities should be taken into consideration in a bedding system design. The design guidelines ...

Different people define ‘interaction’ in the context of digital interactive art in different ways. The confusion comes from the fact that the meaning of interaction is different in different fields. Medical science, social science, information ...

This paper introduces the concept of cross-generational system, which indicates an information technology system designed to allow different generations interacting through centuries or, even, millennia. In the era of digital immortality and ...

The objective of the paper is to critically reflect on how research through design (RtD) can be used to gain knowledge of a new design context within HCI. We use the design research triangle presented by Fallman [1] as the framework for analyzing ...

Based on the present situation of digital communication of cultural heritage at home and abroad, this article compares, analyzes and summarizes the current typical methods of digitized communication. At the same time, from the perspective of “...

Some perceive AI as encroaching on human capacities, perchance affecting their perceptions of AI. Applying Schema theory, this study examines whether and to what extent human judges are biased in ascribing “creativity” to the artwork of artificial ...

Recently, technology-enhanced learning research has increasingly focused on emergent technologies such as augmented reality. Educational researchers of traditional handicraft have used emergent technologies to inject affective and cognitive ...

This paper focuses the shift in human culture and society, delivered by the digital revolution. Due to an expected dematerialization of the most future products and services the contradiction between the classical value of a commodity, negotiated ...

The purpose of research on innovative applications of Augmented Reality technology in digital display for intangible cultural heritage is to promote the way to display and disseminate for collections. We explored the relationship between AR ...

Smartphones have become commodity tools and exist in large multiple in all parts of the population. The typical use of navigation applications focus on aiding users with no impairments. Guidance applications with enhancing features, and ...

Several parts of our modern lives are today taking place in networks where both humans and machines are key actors. With this development follows the increased need and importance of investigating related consequences and understand how we best ...

We investigate whether the behavior of pointing at a map by an image-based avatar helps a user understand a route in an image-based avatar navigation system. We also evaluate whether this behavior is preferred by the user. Existing avatar-based ...