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This paper puts forward a real-time angular tracking (motion capture) system for a low cost upper limb exosuit based on sensor fusion; which is integrated by an elastic sleeve-mitten, two inertial measurement units (IMU), two flex sensors and a wireless communication system. The device can accurately detect the angular position of the shoulder (flexion-extension, abduction-adduction and interna...

Many important real-world problems, such as patrol or search and rescue, could benefit from the ability to train teams of robots to coordinate. One major challenge to achieving such coordination is determining the best way for robots on such teams to communicate with each other. Typical approaches employ hand-designed communication schemes that often require significant effort to engineer. In c...

A shortcoming identified in the dental education literature is the scarcity of patient assessment of the quality of communication between student clinicians and patients. This study, the second in a series, attempts to address this scarcity by testing the communication components deemed critical to patients identified in the first article. Two instruments were tested: the Patient Communication ...

Coordination is an essential characteristic of any task-achieving multi-robot system (MRS), whether it is accomplished through an explicit or implicit coordination mechanism. There is currently little formal work addressing how various MRS coordination mechanisms are related, how appropriate they are for a given task, what capabilities they require of the robots, and what level of performance t...

OBJECTIVES When one member of a couple has a chronic illness, communication about the illness is important for both patient and partner well-being. This study aimed to develop and test a brief self-report measure of illness-related couple communication. DESIGN A combination of correlations and multiple regression were used to assess the internal consistency and validity of the Couples' Illnes...

Coordination is an essential characteristic of any task-achieving multi-robot system, whether it is accomplished through an explicit or implicit coordination mechanism. There is little formal work addressing how various coordination mechanisms are related, how appropriate they are for a given task, what capabilities they require of the robots, and what level of performance they can be expected ...

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among school-aged children and in a substantial proportion of youths these disorders become chronic, causing significant interference with daily functioning. The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Children Anxiety Interference Scale – Parent and Child versions. The sample consist...

BACKGROUND Excellent communication is a necessary component of high-quality health care. We aimed to determine whether a training module could improve patients' perceptions of physician communication behaviors, as measured by change over time in domains of patient experience scores related to physician communication. STUDY DESIGN We designed a comprehensive physician-training module focused o...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether patient-centered communication skills can be taught to residents in Internal Medicine by using a time-limited behaviorally oriented intervention. METHOD Residents working at the Department of Internal Medicine were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG; N = 19) or a control group (CG; N = 23). In addition to 6 hours of standard medical education per ...