Building a Low-Cost Wireless Biofeedback Solution: Applying Design Science Research Methodology.

In recent years, affective computing has emerged as a promising approach to studying user experience, replacing subjective methods that rely on participants' self-evaluation. Affective computing uses biometrics to recognize people's emotional states as they interact with a product. However, the cost of medical-grade biofeedback systems is prohibitive for researchers with limited budgets.

Training Performance of Laparoscopic Surgery in Two- and Three-Dimensional Displays.

Introduction: This research investigated differences in the effects of a state-of-art stereoscopic 3-dimensional (3D) display and a traditional 2-dimensional (2D) display in simulated laparoscopic surgery over a longer duration than in previous publications and studied the learning effects of the 2 display systems on novices.

Methods: A randomized experiment with 2 factors, image dimensions and image sequence, was conducted to investigate differences in the mean movement time, the mean error frequency, NASA-TLX cognitive workload, and visual fatigue in pegboard and circle-tracing tasks.

Results: The stereoscopic 3D display had advantages in mean movement time ( P < .

Lifting speed preferences and their effects on the maximal lifting capacity.

The objectives of this study were to evaluate how lifting capacity and subjective preferences are affected by different lifting speeds. The maximum lifting capacity of lift was determined with three independent variables, lifting speed, lifting technique, and lifting height. Questionnaires were evaluated after the experiment by the participants for the lifting speed preferences.