AIMC Topic: Task Performance and Analysis

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Development of an intelligent surgical training system for Thoracentesis.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
Surgical training improves patient care, helps to reduce surgical risks, increases surgeon's confidence, and thus enhances overall patient safety. Current surgical training systems are more focused on developing technical skills, e.g. dexterity, of t...

Can Dogs Assist Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder in Complying with Challenging Demands? An Exploratory Experiment with a Live and a Robotic Dog.

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
OBJECTIVES: Prompted by the need to find effective ways to enhance compliance in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and building on the increasing interest in dog-assisted interventions for this population, this study provides an explorato...

Handling interference effects on foraging with bucket brigades.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Many kinds of bio-inspired tasks have been tested with swarm robotics and task partitioning is one of the challenging subjects. In nature, it is well known that some colonies of social insects such as honeybees, termites, and ants use task partitioni...

Tele-Manipulation with Two Asymmetric Slaves: Two Operators Perform Better Than One.

IEEE transactions on haptics
Certain tele-manipulation tasks require manipulation by two asymmetric slaves, for example, a crane for hoisting and a dexterous robotic arm for fine manipulation. It is unclear how to best design human-in-the-loop control over two asymmetric slaves....

Enhancing the effectiveness of human-robot teaming with a closed-loop system.

Applied ergonomics
With technological developments in robotics and their increasing deployment, human-robot teams are set to be a mainstay in the future. To develop robots that possess teaming capabilities, such as being able to communicate implicitly, the present stud...

Anticipatory detection of turning in humans for intuitive control of robotic mobility assistance.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Many wearable lower-limb robots for walking assistance have been developed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how they can be commanded in an intuitive and efficient way by their user. In particular, providing robotic assistance to neurolog...

Finding discriminative and interpretable patterns in sequences of surgical activities.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
OBJECTIVE: Surgery is one of the riskiest and most important medical acts that is performed today. Understanding the ways in which surgeries are similar or different from each other is of major interest to understand and analyze surgical behaviors. T...

Technologically-advanced assessment of upper-limb spasticity: a pilot study.

European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine
BACKGROUND: Spasticity is a muscle disorder associated with upper motor neuron syndrome occurring in neurological disorders, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and others. It influences the patient's rehabilitation, interfering wi...

What Would a Graph Look Like in this Layout? A Machine Learning Approach to Large Graph Visualization.

IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Using different methods for laying out a graph can lead to very different visual appearances, with which the viewer perceives different information. Selecting a "good" layout method is thus important for visualizing a graph. The selection can be high...

Quantitative Testing of fMRI-Compatibility of an Electrically Active Mechatronic Device for Robot-Assisted Sensorimotor Protocols.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
OBJECTIVE: To develop a quantitative set of methods for testing the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) compatibility of an electrically-active mechatronic device developed to support sensorimotor protocols during fMRI.