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Eery Space: Facilitating Virtual Meetings Through Remote Proxemics
Maurício Sousa, Daniel Mendes, Alfredo Ferreira +2
Virtual meetings have become increasingly common with modern video-conference and collaborative software. While they allow obvious savings in time and resources, current technologi…
MAGIC: Manipulating Avatars and Gestures to Improve Remote Collaboration
Catarina G. Fidalgo, Maurício Sousa, Daniel Mendes +4
Remote collaborative work has become pervasive in many settings, from engineering to medical professions. Users are immersed in virtual environments and communicate through life-si…
SURVIVRS: Surround Video-Based Virtual Reality for Surgery Guidance
Amani Taweel, Joaquim Jorge, Anderson Maciel +2
There is a strong demand for virtual reality (VR) to bring quality healthcare to underserved populations. This paper addresses this need with the design and prototype of SURVIVRS:…
Exploring Affordances for AR in Laparoscopy
Matheus Negrão, Joaquim Jorge, João Vissoci +2
This paper explores the possibilities of designing AR interfaces to be used during laparoscopy surgery. It suggests that the laparoscopic video be displayed on AR headsets and that…
Virtual Reality for medical education and training of Diabetic Foot
Gabriel Riva, Wellington Dores, Artur Damasio +3
Diabetic Foot is one of the most common complications of Diabetes Mellitus and the leading non-traumatic cause of lower-limb amputations worldwide. These complications are preventa…
Design requirements to improve laparoscopy via XR
Ezequiel R. Zorzal, Maurício Sousa, Pedro Belchior +3
Laparoscopic surgery has the advantage of avoiding large open incisions and thereby decreasing blood loss, pain, and discomfort to patients. However, on the other side, it is hampe…
Improving X-ray Diagnostics through Eye-Tracking and XR
Catarina Moreira, Isabel Blanco Nobre, Sandra Costa Sousa +2
There is a growing need to assist radiologists in performing X-ray readings and diagnoses fast, comfortably, and effectively. As radiologists strive to maximize productivity, it is…
Controlling camera movement in VR colonography
Soraia F Paulo, Daniel Medeiros, Daniel Lopes +1
Immersive Colonography allows medical professionals to navigate inside the intricate tubular geometries of subject-specific 3D colon images using Virtual Reality displays. Typicall…
Safe Walking In VR using Augmented Virtuality
Maurício Sousa, Daniel Mendes, Joaquim Jorge
New technologies allow ordinary people to access Virtual Reality at affordable prices in their homes. One of the most important tasks when interacting with immersive Virtual Realit…
Negative Space: Workspace Awareness in 3D Face-to-Face Remote Collaboration
Maurício Sousa, Daniel Mendes, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos +2
Face-to-face telepresence promotes the sense of "being there" and can improve collaboration by allowing immediate understanding of remote people's nonverbal cues. Several approache…