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Ajikumar, Akhil, Mayenkar, Sahil + 6 more
Extended reality (XR) research increasingly relies on the ability to stream and synchronize multimodal data between headsets and immersive applications for data-driven interaction and experimentation. However, developers face a critical gap: the Platform for Situated Intelligence (\psi), which excels at deterministic…
Zoe Lee-Youngzie, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Michael Robinson, Donna Dietz + 4 more
Recent work in the structural approach to consciousness has shown great promise as a research paradigm for the formal and empirical study of the phenomenal qualities of experience, i.e., qualia. In this paradigm, qualia are characterized by modeling the internal organization of parts within an experience, or by…
Murray, Richard F.
Game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine have become popular tools for creating perceptual and behavioral experiments based on complex, interactive scenes. They are often used with flat-panel displays, and also with head-mounted displays. Here I describe and test a mathematical model of luminance and color in…
Kyle Coutray, Christos Constantinidis
3.1.### Timing and performance validation: NERV is designed to achieve millisecond precision in event timing and maintain consistent frame rates, comparable to established toolkits such as Psychtoolbox () and commercial platforms like Presentation (). Leveraging Unity’s compiled architecture, latency and jitter for…
William Baumgartner, Gizem Kayar-Ceylan
Haptic feedback enhances immersion in virtual environments by allowing users to physically interact with simulated objects. Supporting accurate force responses in multiphysics systems is challenging because physically based simulation of fluid, rigid, and deformable materials is computationally demanding, especially…
Amber van der Wal, Ine Beyens, Loes H. C. Janssen, Patti M. Valkenburg
The rising prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents has prompted increased scrutiny of social media as a contributing factor. Previous research has produced mixed results, likely due to the varying impact of social media on different dimensions of mental health. To advance understanding in this area, this…
Elif Zapsu
The unexpected parallelisms of ideas in psychology and physics suggest…a possible ultimate oneness of both fields of reality that physics and psychology study…The concept of a unitarian idea of reality…was called by Jung the*unus mundus*. (, p. 309) The questions of who and what we are consistently emerge at the center…
Yehuda Bergstein, Noa Barel, Galia Shai Basson, Omri Bromberg + 1 more
Extended Reality (XR) combines experimental control and ecological validity, yet behavioral XR research lacks shared infrastructure: building immersive experiments demands specialized engineering, and custom tools yield data in custom formats that other laboratories cannot readily reanalyze. We present ResXR (Research…
A. Ciraolo, E. Scalona, A. Zilli, A. Nuara + 10 more
The recovery of motor function is increasingly understood as a process influenced not only by physical training but also by perceptual and cognitive strategies. Action Observation Treatment (AOT), a neurorehabilitation approach in which patients observe goal-directed motor actions before executing them, has…
Aryan Das, Koushik Biswas, Moloud Abdar, Vinay Kumar Verma
We introduce UNITY, a Universal-to-Specialized adapter for efficient and scalable composite conditioning in diffusion based image generation. Unlike prior methods that train separate adapters for each conditioning modality, UNITY jointly learns shared semantics across multiple conditioning types and subsequently…
Milad Yekani, Shirin Jamshidi, Babak Feyzifard, Abdol-hossein Vahabie
Biological motion perception plays a critical role in survival and social communication across species. Point-light displays (PLDs), which represent body movement using only a small set of joint markers, have long served as an effective tool for isolating motion cues from other visual features. However, existing…
Takashi Matsui, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Shohei Dobashi, Shion Takahashi + 4 more
Live sport spectatorship can promote social connection, yet scalable, low-burden strategies to strengthen bonding in real-world spectator settings remain limited. We here tested the hypothesis that co-consuming sparkling water during spectating attenuates hunger and fatigue and strengthens enjoyment and perceived…
Nan Jiang, Zimo He, Wanhe Yu, Lexi Pang + 7 more
UniAct addresses the challenge of translating diverse multimodal instructions into robust humanoid motion through a unified three-stage pipeline, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The framework consists of: (i) FSQ-based instruction tokenization that unifies heterogeneous inputs [[46]], (ii) MLLMdriven motion generation that…
Ruizhen Gu, José Miguel Rojas, Donghwan Shin
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies offer immersive user experiences across various domains, but present unique testing challenges compared to traditional software. Existing VR testing approaches enable scene navigation and interaction activation, but lack the ability to automatically synthesise realistic 3D user inputs…
Mohammad Wafa
The Hemispheric Disparity Theory conceptualizes one facet of consciousness, defined as the “conscious-mind” experience. Rather than a unified agent, conscious experience arises from the dynamic interplay between a left hemisphere specialized in order and abstraction through dynamic temporal modeling, and a right…
Rosa Giglio, Daniele Tognetto
Cataracta nigra, an extremely dense nuclear cataract, often requires prolonged ultrasound use during phacoemulsification, increasing the risk of corneal endothelial injury and incision-site thermal damage. We compared the Alcon UNITY Cataract System using 4-dimensional (4D) ultrasound with the Alcon CENTURION Vision…
Jonas Müller
The Baltic-German biologist Jakob von Uexküll was heavily inspired by the work of philosopher Immanuel Kant. Uexküll’s views on time and space were likewise inspired by Kant. Kant argued that time and space are the a priori forms of intuition. Uexküll argued similarly that time and space depend entirely on the subject.…
Raphael Q. Gastrock, Setayesh Nezakatiolfati, Andrew King, Denise Y. P. Henriques
Practice enhances motor acuity, enabling movement execution with greater speed and accuracy. However, the learning principles underlying improvements in speed, accuracy, and efficiency remain less understood than those supporting motor skill acquisition and adaptation. Here, we examined motor execution in a skill-based…
Luis Felipe Casas, Robert Teal, Keval Shah, Abhijit Tadepalli + 2 more
Robot manipulation policies are typically tied to specific robotic hand embodiments, limiting the transfer of learned behaviors across platforms with different kinematic structures. In this work, we propose the Unified Hand Action Space (UHAS), a sphere-based unified action representation for cross-embodiment dexterous…
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Redox-mediated flow batteries (RMFBs), an emerging subclass of redox flow batteries (RFBs), incorporate solid active materials into the tanks to dramatically increase theoretical energy density, albeit currently at the expense of design and operational simplicity. Using physics-based models, we assess the performance…
Yinqi Huang, Abhilasha Vishwanath, Yu Karen Du, Matthew F Watson + 5 more
Navigation requires estimating heading and transforming these estimates into actions. Prior models explain how self-motion and landmark cues are combined into heading estimates, but less is known about how these estimates are iteratively transformed into motor commands to reach a goal. Here, we hypothesized that…
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We present a theoretical and computational framework for virtual mass spectrometry based on Molecular Maxwell Demons (MMDs) operating as information catalysts. Building on the biological Maxwell demon framework, we demonstrate that mass spectrometry data contain categorical state information that is fundamentally…