Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) characterizes a sophisticated operation technique in which
long instruments are inserted into the patient through small incisions. Though providing …

Human task performance with teleoperation systems is characterized by long task
completion times, handling errors, and excessive force application to objects in the remote …

A quantitative review of empirical studies investigating the effects of haptic feedback in
teleoperation or virtual reality systems is provided. Several meta-analyses were conducted …

Ensuring care is one of the biggest humanitarian challenges of the future since an acute
shortage in nursing staff is expected. At the same time, this offers the opportunity for new …

Teleoperated vehicles present a solution for driverless parking or distribution of vehicles.
Two important challenges in teleoperation are a possible connection loss during …

Since the introduction of surgical robots into clinical practice, there has been a lively debate
about the potential benefits and the need to implement haptic feedback for the surgeon. In …

The overall aim of this work is to provide some guidelines for the design of tele-presence
systems from a human factors point of view. Developers of such human-machine systems …

One of the main objectives in telerobotics is the development of a telemanipulation system
that allows a high task performance to be achieved by simultaneously providing a high …

This thesis summarizes guidelines for the design and control of a highly integrated, multi-
modal, and intuitive teleoperation system that can be used to perform a variety of different …

Virtual environments are already used frequently in research and practice. However, it
remained unclear to what extent human spatial behavior in real and virtual environments are …