Abstract: An interactive wearable device includes a ring body and a detector. The ring body includes a top insulating layer, a bottom insulating layer, and an intermediate insulating layer disposed in between the top and the bottom insulating layers. The detector includes a receiving electrode layer disposed in between the top and the intermediate insulating layers, a transmitting electrode layer disposed in between the intermediate and the bottom insulating layers, and a ground electrode layer embedding in the bottom insulating layer and electrically coupled to an electrical ground. The receiving electrode layer has a plurality of receiving electrode portions separated from each other and arranged in a matrix and along a curve path. The interactive wearable device is configured to analyze the movement event at least according to a variation of a data set in response to the movement event, measured by receiving electrode portions.

Abstract: A human-interface device and a guiding apparatus for a visually impaired user including such human-interface device. The human-interface device includes a tactile module arranged to provide a set of haptic signals to a user, wherein the tactile module has a plurality of tactile units each arranged to provide at least a first haptic signal and operable to cooperate with one or more of other tactile units to provide different haptic signals.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of composing, using natural language processing, a system for performing a task. The method comprises receiving a user input comprising a sequence of words; processing the user input using a neural network for entity recognition to identify, from the sequence of words, a term defining an event; and searching a data store having stored therein data indicative of a plurality of components, using the identified term, to determine a component for the system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a system for simulating the buoyancy and the resistive force. The system comprises a pair of wearable devices, each of the wearable devices comprises a calf shell, a first ducted fan, a second ducted fan, a first connection component, a second connection component and a tracker. The first ducted fan and the second ducted fan operate in non-zero duty cycles for generating a first force in a first direction, and a second force in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are in different directions. The sum of the first force and the second force are the sum of the resistive force, the buoyant force, the potential weights and the weight of the wearable device. The tracker further transmits feedback data to control system.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a wearable device to convey notifications to the users with thermal haptic feedback including an earhook shell configured to be worn on a user's outer ear. The earhook shell including a plurality of thermoelectric modules for providing hot and cold stimuli at single or multiple points on an auricular skin area of the user's outer ear. A wireless receiver is provided for receiving communication signals from a computing device. A power supply electrically communicates with the plurality of thermoelectric modules and the wireless receiver.

Abstract: An MRI-based surgical navigation method of providing a personalized augmented reality of targeted internal organs with real-time intraoperative tracking is provided. Briefly, two-dimensional MRI images of targeted internal organs are segmented into a plurality of segmented data and recombined thereof to generate a three-dimensional volumetric model of the targeted internal organs. An augmented reality-based three-dimensional simulation model including anatomical features and spatial information of the targeted internal organs is obtained to be overlaid with the three-dimensional volumetric model while collecting real-time feedback of surgical operations.

Abstract: A human-interface-device (HID) for controlling an electronic device, such as a virtual-reality head-mounted display apparatus. The HID includes: a detector module arranged to receive and record a signal associated with a gesture performed by a user; a signal processor arranged to map the recorded signal against a database storing a set of predefined user commands; and a HID controller arranged to execute one or more instructions thereby controlling an operation of the electronic device.

Abstract: A human-interface device and a guiding apparatus for a visually impaired user including such human-interface device. The human-interface device includes a tactile module arranged to provide a set of haptic signals to a user, wherein the tactile module has a plurality of tactile units each arranged to provide at least a first haptic signal and operable to cooperate with one or more of other tactile units to provide different haptic signals.

Abstract: Systems and methods which provide for interactive haptic proxies for hand-graspable virtual reality (VR) objects using reconfigurable artifacts and facilitated through use of a haptic reconfigurable artifact toolkit are described. Embodiments provide a haptic reconfigurable artifact toolkit including a set of reconfigurable artifacts for use in forming reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies, a set of haptic hardware components for use with respect to reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies, and a haptic reconfigurable artifact software platform configured to facilitate generation of reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies using items of the set of reconfigurable artifacts and the set of haptic hardware components. Reconfigurable artifacts may be shaped to form reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies covering a wide range of hand-grasp postures.

Abstract: Systems and methods which provide for interactive haptic proxies for hand-graspable virtual reality (VR) objects using reconfigurable artifacts and facilitated through use of a haptic reconfigurable artifact toolkit are described. Embodiments provide a haptic reconfigurable artifact toolkit including a set of reconfigurable artifacts for use in forming reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies, a set of haptic hardware components for use with respect to reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies, and a haptic reconfigurable artifact software platform configured to facilitate generation of reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies using items of the set of reconfigurable artifacts and the set of haptic hardware components. Reconfigurable artifacts may be shaped to form reconfigurable artifact-based haptic proxies covering a wide range of hand-grasp postures.

Abstract: A system and a method for printing an object includes a display module arranged to display a two-dimensional representation within a two-dimensional space, the two-dimensional representation being arranged to represent a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional object within the two-dimensional space; a processing module arranged to transform the two-dimensional representation into a plurality of two-dimensional expressions arranged to individually represent a portion of the three-dimensional object; and a printing module arranged to form the three-dimensional object from a fluid medium arranged to transform its physical state in response to a manipulated illumination exposed thereto, wherein the manipulated illumination exposed to the fluid medium is associated with the plurality of two-dimensional expressions disposed therebetween, and with the inner surface of the printed three-dimensional object being arranged to match the outer surface of a real-world object inserted therein.