Tele-ICU has an off-site command center in which a critical care team (intensivists and critical care nurses) is connected with patients in distance intensive care units (ICUs) through a real-time audio, visual and electronic means and health information is exchanged. The aim of this paper is to review literature to explore the available studies related to efficacy and cost effectiveness of Tel...

A new technique for the remote guidance of fast mobile robots has been developed and implemented. With this method, the mobile robot follows the general direction prescribed by an operator. However, if the robot encounters an obstacle, it autonomously avoids collision with that obstacle while trying to match the prescribed direction as closely as possible. This novel implementation of shared co...

This paper describes a research study for the development and implementation of a prototype remote-controlled robotic assistant to doctors (Tele-Doc) for telemedicine applications. The development considers implementation issues concerning real-time and continuous patient monitoring and diagnosis, as well as tele-control interfacing techniques, mobile robot motion controller, reprogrammable emb...

The work describes on-going work at the University of Pisa on the field of tele-laboratories and distance learning. In particular, the group is working at the evolution of existing tele-laboratory experiments in the field of robotics and control into learning units of a self-consistent didactic project. The pick-andplace system described has been designed to provide the set-up for robot arm mot...

Background-Covid-19 pandemic has posed a great challenge for people with neurological disorders like Parkinson’s-disease to commute treatment center due risk of infection, unavailability transport and most importantly avail contact commonly practiced in physiotherapy management patients. With the view providing home-bound these patients, we speculated that safe balance intervention under expert...

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the philosophical and practical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. The purpose of such an exploration is twofold: First, to establish connections between (tele)presence, simulation and philosophy. Second, to re-evaluate some longstanding questions related to epistem...

The goal of this thesis is to present the virtual environments research community with a thorough investigation of collaborative awareness in Tele-immersion and related immersive virtual environments. Tele-immersion was originally defined in 1996 by Tom Defanti of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is "the union of networked VR and video in the context of significant computing and d...

In order to facilitate knowledge transfer between specialists and generalists and between experts and novices, and to promote interdisciplinary communication, there is a need to provide methods and tools for doing so. This interdisciplinary research team developed and evaluated a decision support tool (DST) on a personal digital assistant (PDA) for cardiac tele-triage/tele-consultation when the...

The creation of tele-immersive environments involves taking parts of the real world, or scene, and synthesizing them in a virtual world. These parts are called objects of interest, and the collection of these objects together form the foreground of the scene. In particular, tele-immersive systems are designed to facilitate communication and collaboration between people. Therefore, the central o...

Conventionally adopted medical tele-consultation systems primarily provide an interactive discussion environment for physicians. However, as medical tele-consultation systems are used for healthcare, the manageability and retrieval capabilities are of equal importance to this interactive discussion environment. A novel medical tele-consultation system with session retrieval and session scheduli...