In this day and age, self-regulated learning (SRL), as a predictor of students’ academic success, has been dedicatedly fostered through online classrooms since virtual situationally dominated in the wake global pandemic. Given prominence implementing instructional practices to foster SRL possible challenges that emerged during its adaptation platforms, study aims shed light on hindrance promoti...

The main target of T7.1 was the development of VR based demonstrators for soft tissue interaction. While D7.1 mainly focused on theoretical background, and implementation detail, this report advances towards the evaluation of the system from several points of view. The studies range from psychophysical evaluation experiments, to more technical evaluation of the approaches. An evaluation of the ...

Full field strain measurements of biological tissue during loading are often limited to the quantification of fiduciary marker displacements on the tissue surface. These marker measurements can lack the necessary spatial resolution to characterize non-uniform deformation and may not represent the deformation of the load-bearing collagen microstructure. To overcome these potential limitations, a...

We studied the characteristics of hand touch with a mechanical device that approximated a handshake, and we then examined the effect of handshake mimicry on assessment of a partner. Two participants interacted with a force-feedback joystick that recorded each of their hand movements individually. The two participants then greeted one another by feeling the recording of the other person’s moveme...

An overview of subjectively selected topics and research trends in the area of virtual reality and telepresence systems is given. The major focus is on haptic feedback devices allowing the operator to touch virtual and remote objects. The paper presents selected hardware developments and application studies in the haptic research area carried out at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineerin...

The aim of this project is to develop a virtual conversational agent that has the ability to touch the user using haptic interfaces. The focus is on generating believable communicative behavior of the virtual agent based on mental models of human-human communication. We will work on generating scenarios, building prototypes of haptic interfaces, and evaluating the user experience with the syste...

Virtual reality is a computer based technology linked with the future of dentistry and dental practice. The virtual articulator is one such application in prosthetic and restorative dentistry based on virtual reality that will significantly reduce the limitations of the mechanical articulator, and by simulation of real patient data, allow analyses with regard to static and dynamic occlusion as ...