Metaverse Wearables for Immersive Digital Healthcare: A Review

Kim, Kisoo; Yang, Hyosill; Lee, Jihun; Lee, Won Gu

doi:10.1002/advs.202303234

Cited by 18 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 223 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Generative AI and virtual reality may soon transform medical education through the development of immersive medical simulation experiences ( 32 , 33 ). Stroke only accounts for approximately 2% of total EMS dispatches, and with high turnover and limited shifts, EMS personnel may lack appropriate training or experience to identify and triage stroke.…”

Section: Future State: Artificial Intelligence To Enhance Prehospital...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial intelligence to enhance prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage: a perspective

Wolcott,

English

2024

Front. Neurol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As health systems organize to deliver the highest quality stroke care to their patients, there is increasing emphasis being placed on prehospital stroke recognition, accurate diagnosis, and efficient triage to improve outcomes after stroke. Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel currently rely heavily on dispatch accuracy, stroke screening tools, bypass protocols and prehospital notification to care for patients with suspected stroke, but novel tools including mobile stroke units and telemedicine-enabled ambulances are already changing the landscape of prehospital stroke care. Herein, the authors provide our perspective on the current state of prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage including several of these emerging trends. Then, we provide commentary to highlight potential artificial intelligence (AI) applications to improve stroke detection, improve accurate and timely dispatch, enhance EMS training and performance, and develop novel stroke diagnostic tools for prehospital use.

show abstract

Section: Future State: Artificial Intelligence To Enhance Prehospital...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial intelligence to enhance prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage: a perspective

Wolcott,

English

2024

Front. Neurol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Advances in Piezoelectret Materials‐Based Bidirectional Haptic Communication Devices

Gong,

Zhang,

Lei

et al. 2024

Advanced Materials

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Bidirectional haptic communication devices accelerate the revolution of virtual/augmented reality and flexible/wearable electronics. As an emerging kind of flexible piezoelectric materials, piezoelectret materials can effortlessly convert mechanical force into electrical signals and respond to electrical fields in a deformation manner, exhibiting enormous potential in the construction of bidirectional haptic communication devices. Existing reviews on piezoelectret materials primarily focus on flexible energy harvesters and sensors, and the recent development of piezoelectret‐based bidirectional haptic communication devices has not been comprehensively reviewed. Herein, a comprehensive overview of the materials construction, along with the recent advances in bidirectional haptic communication devices, is provided. First, the development timeline, key characteristics, and various fabrication methods of piezoelectret materials are introduced. Subsequently, following the underlying mechanisms of bidirectional electromechanical signal conversion of piezoelectret, strategies to improve the d33 coefficients of materials are proposed. The principles of haptic perception and feedback are also highlighted, and representative works and progress in this area are summarized. Finally, the challenges and opportunities associated with improving the overall practicability of piezoelectret materials‐based bidirectional haptic communication devices are discussed.

show abstract

A Hybrid Upper‐Arm‐Geared Exoskeleton with Anatomical Digital Twin for Tangible Metaverse Feedback and Communication

Ha,

Lee,

Cho

et al. 2023

Adv Materials Technologies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The pandemic coincided with rapid advancements in virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) in healthcare. The idea of virtually replicating the real world and its associated experiences has garnered significant attention under the newly coined term “metaverse.” The metaverse serves as a communication platform that integrates physical and virtual experiences. However, the lack of physical interaction between users and virtual environments remains an obstacle. This study introduces a hybrid upper‐arm‐geared exoskeleton system that combines an anatomical digital‐twin model with tangible VR torque feedback and an MR remote healthcare monitoring in a musculoskeletal interface device format. The device employs a dual epicyclic geared motor actuator capable of exerting torque feedback. It derived torque profiles that simulate physical interactions with hysteretic damping in the virtual environment. An anatomical digital twin model is also incorporated into the fabricated device in an MR format and assessed the device's performance using electromyogram and thermographic sensors. In addition, it evaluated haptic fidelity and versatility as an immersive metaverse wearable and performed support vector machine‐based analysis for motion feature classification. It believes this approach has the potential to be highly beneficial for providing tangible metaverse feedback and communication combined with a human‐informed digital‐twin model for remote healthcare monitoring in the postpandemic era.

show abstract

Metaverse Wearables for Immersive Digital Healthcare: A Review

Cited by 18 publications

References 223 publications

Artificial intelligence to enhance prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage: a perspective

Artificial intelligence to enhance prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage: a perspective

Advances in Piezoelectret Materials‐Based Bidirectional Haptic Communication Devices

A Hybrid Upper‐Arm‐Geared Exoskeleton with Anatomical Digital Twin for Tangible Metaverse Feedback and Communication

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About