Assistive Social Robots for Elderly Care
By Joost Broekens, Koen Hindriks & Martijn Wisse The developed countries face a serious demographic challenge. In these countries, almost one fifth of the population was aged 60 or older…read more →
Archive For June, 2014
Letter from the Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief
➣ Professor Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold Dear Reader, “Virtual worlds, both immersive and Web-based, are at the frontier of innovation in medical education,” wrote an anesthesiologist in 2008. As Richard…read more →
Robots that Care: Some beneficial effects of human-robot interaction in healthcare
By Jeroen Arendsen & Agali Mert Robots are a type of technology that interacts with people in a special way. They can be put to good use in all kinds…read more →
Letter from the Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief
➣ Professor Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold Dear Reader, Stress inoculation training (SIT) is a type of training used to prepare individuals for stressful situations and helps diminish the potential for…read more →
President’s Note
➣ Professor Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold Dear Reader, I would firstly like to warmly thank new and returning readers to CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation Magazine (C&R), the official voice of the…read more →
C&R in South Korea
➣ Emily Butcher Currently experts in the mental health area in South Korea are focused on implementing changes that will result in heightened awareness and a broader scope of treatment…read more →
Virtual Reality for Robot- Assisted Gait Training in Children
By Karin Brütsch Impaired movement, particularly walking, is frequently observed in patients with neurological disorders. Recent achievements in rehabilitation engineering resulted in the development of several robotic systems that aim…read more →
Surgery Simulation: Training Tool of the Future
➣ Shiyu Jia & Zhenkuan Pan Surgery simulation simulates surgery processes in a computer-generated virtual environment. It is an application of virtual reality technologies in the field of medicine. Non-real-time…read more →
Transcranial Doppler Monitoring in Presence Research
➣ By Beatriz Rey et al. In order to study the psychological mechanisms underlying experiences in virtual environments (VE), one of the concepts that are analyzed is presence. A commonly…read more →
Product Comparison Chart: Military Robots
Christina Valenti …read more →