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Thermal feedback has been studied for navigation purposes with directional cues and a variety of other use cases. Yet, to date, systems providing thermal feedback were primarily designed for the upper body, targeting hands and arms in particular. As ...

Haptic interfaces have been extended to the feet to enhance foot-based activities, such as guidance while walking or stepping on virtual textures. Most feet haptics use mechanical actuators, namely vibration motors. However, we argue that vibration ...

The foot is an important part of the human body. Its functions are mainly walking and load-bearing. It also keeps the human body stable and absorbs ground vibrations to protect important human organs.

Inspired by the function of a toe and a lateral arch of a human foot, we propose a method to stabilize the biped walk by attaching unactuated toes and lateral arches. The toes and lateral arches work as adaptive braking of sagittal and lateral ...

A problem of decision making in case of multi-criteria instrumental evaluation of orthotics results with foot pathology is considered. Application appropriateness of decision making process models developed on the basis of the hierarchic process ...

ShoeSoleSense is a proof of concept, novel body worn interface - an insole that enables location independent hands-free interaction through the feet. Forgoing hand or finger interaction is especially beneficial when the user is engaged in real world ...

When working with zoomable information spaces, we can distinguish complex tasks into primary and secondary tasks (e.g., pan and zoom). In this context, a multimodal combination of gaze and foot input is highly promising for supporting manual ...

The core issues of mass customization (MC) are to provide more and more conveniences to meet customer's customized requirements and to ensure near mass production efficiency and quality in manufacturing processes. Since the MC provides to the customer, ...

In this study, effect of a new foot pressure redistribution method is tested. A female subject was asked to stand on prepared clay prototypes and slowly load on foot. Then, shapes of pressed feet under different loadings were recorded by the footprints ...

This paper presents the results of a nationwide anthropometric survey conducted on children in China. Foot length and foot breadth were measured from 20,000 children with age ranged from 4 to 17 years old by 3D foot scanner. Mean values, standard ...

Three-dimensional point cloud data of a foot are used to determine the critical dimensions for making custom footwear. However, automatic and accurate measurement of dimensions, especially girths, is an issue of concern to many designers and footwear ...

Rich text tasks are increasingly common on mobile devices, requiring the user to interleave typing and selection to produce the text and formatting she desires. However, mobile devices are a rich input space where input does not need to be limited to a ...

Digital scanners are commonplace and are used in many different applications to obtain three-dimensional shapes and linear and circumferential measurements. Even though scanners can be highly accurate, measurements obtained from scanners can vary ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate function of the great toe in maintaining human static and dynamic balance. Correlation among the great toe length, body height and balance performance parameters were also investigated. Thirty female subjects (...

Thermal regulation and issues related to health and comfort are central to the design of footwear. A measurement system to determine temperatures within a shoe, which is robust enough for sports has been developed. This was used to measure the ...