In this paper, we introduce our life-size talking head robotic system, “Mask-bot”, developed as a platform to support and accelerate human-robot communication research. The “Mask-bot” hardware consists of a semi-transparent plain mask, a portable LED projector with a fish-eye conversion lens mounted behind the mask, a pan-tilt unit and a mounting base. The hardware is driven by a software anima...

The amount of time viewers could process a scene during eye fixations was varied by a mask that appeared at a certain point in each eye fixation. The scene did not reappear until the viewer made an eye movement. The main finding in the studies was that in order to normally process a scene, viewers needed to see the scene for at least 150 ms during each eye fixation. This result is surprising be...

White (1976) reported that presentation of a masking stimulus during a pursuit eye movement interfered with the perception of a target stimulus that shared the same spatial, rather than retinal, coordinates as the mask. This finding has been interpreted as evidence for the existence of spatiotopic visual persistence. We doubted White's results because they implied a high degree of position cons...

BACKGROUND Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the developed world. The only treatments currently available, such as ranibizumab injections, are for neovascular AMD, which accounts for only 10 to 15% of people with the condition. Hypoxia has been implicated as one of the primary causes of AMD, and is most acute at night when the retina ...

Children with Goldenhar syndrome are known to present airway management challenges for the anesthesiologist. We present the case of a 10-year-old child with Goldenhar syndrome, in whom a flexible Laryngeal Mask Airway (Intavent Orthofix, Ltd, Maidenhead, UK) was successfully used for eye surgery.

This case report describes the airway management of three month old child presenting with a severe facial congenital malformation, a bilateral Tessier number 4 cleft, and scheduled to undergo benign eye surgery. The use of a conventional laryngeal mask allowed successful management, despite the severity of the facial abnormality. This case is then discussed at the light of the literature.

Purpose: We investigated the effect of wearing a loose mask on tear-film break-up time using cross-sectional and experimental methods.Methods: This was comparative analysis non-invasive (NIBUT) after no mask, tight for 10 minutes each in 60 eyes with or without dry eye syndrome. NIBUT measurements were performed keratograph.Results: The values 7.53 ± 0.83 seconds, 6.19 0.78 7.36 0.68 seconds gr...

Supra-threshold spatial integration was studied by testing the saliency of multi Gabor element conngurations in short duration binocular rivalry (dichoptic masking) conditions. Dichoptic presentations allows for a competition between spatially overlapping supra-threshold stimuli that involve non-overlapping receptive elds in the rst stage of visual ltering. Diierent spatial conngurations of Gab...

Background: Surgical treatment and complications of patients with zygomatic bone fractures can lead to a significant degree of tissue trauma resulting in common postoperative symptoms and types of pain, facial swelling and functional impairment. Beneficial effects of local cold treatment on postoperative swelling, edema, pain, inflammation, haemorrhage as well as the reduction of metabolism, bl...