Marcia O'Malley

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Posted August 1, 2008 by omalleym and updated August 7, 2009
Personal Information
Position: 
Faculty
Homepage: 
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Eomalleym/index.html
Contact Information
Public Email: 
omalleym [at] rice [dot] edu
Public Phone Number: 
713-348-3545
Public Phone Number: 
832-419-8130
Lab Information
Current Member
Lab Director
Start Date: 
07/01/2001

Publications

2009

Intermittency of slow arm movements increases in distal direction
Effects of Magnitude and Phase Cues on Human Motor Adaptation
Compact and low-cost tendon vibrator for inducing proprioceptive illusions
A Low Cost Vibrotactile Array to Manage Respiratory Motion
Visual versus haptic progressive guidance for training in a virtual environment
Designing and Implementation of a Tactile Respiratory Management System
Effects of Force and Displacement Cues while Adapting in a Rhythmic Motor Task
Movement intermittency and variability in human arm movements
Impact of visual error augmentation methods on task performance and motor adaptation
Validation of a smooth movement model for a human reaching task
Improved Haptic Fidelity via Reduced Sampling Period with an FPGA-Based Real-Time Hardware Platform
Passive and Active Discrimination of Natural Frequency of Virtual Dynamic System
Negative Efficacy of Fixed Gain Error Reducing Shared Control for Training in Virtual Environments
Progressive shared control for training in virtual environments

2008

Haptic Interfaces
Passive and active kinesthetic perception just-noticeable-difference for natural frequency of virtual dynamic systems
Comparison of robotic and clinical motor function improvement measures for sub-acute stroke patients
Design, control and performance of RiceWrist: A force feedback wrist exoskeleton for rehabilitation and training

2007

Robotic Exoskeletons for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation
Improved haptic fidelity via reduced sampling period with an FPGA-based real-time hardware platform (IMECE)
Towards just noticeable differences for natural frequency of manually excited virtual dynamic systems
Disturbance observer based closed loop force control for haptic feedback
Principles of human-machine interfaces and interactions

2006

Shared Control for Training in Virtual Environments: Learning Through Demonstration?
The RiceWrist: A distal upper extremity rehabilitation robot for stroke therapy
Assessing and Inducing Neuroplasticity with TMS and Robotics
Design of a haptic arm exoskeleton for training and rehabilitation
Experimental system identification of force reflecting hand controller
Vision based force sensing for nanorobotic manipulation
Adaptation of Haptic Interfaces for a LabVIEW-based System Dynamics Course
Haptic Interfaces for a LabVIEW-based System Dynamics Course
Shared control in haptic systems for performance enhancement and training
Performance Enhancement of a Haptic Arm Exoskeleton
A Study of Perceptual Performance in Haptic Virtual Environments

2005

Transparency of a phantom premium haptic interface for active and passive human interaction
Transparency extension in haptic interfaces via adaptive dynamics cancellation
Human-machine admittance and transparency adaptation in passive user interaction with a haptic interface
Virtual lab for system identification of an electromechanical system
On the ability of humans to haptically identify and discriminate real and simulated objects
Shared control for upper extremity rehabilitation in virtual environments

2004

Cooperative manipulation between humans and teleoperated agents
Virtual labs in the engineering curriculum
Comparison of human haptic size discrimination performance in simulated environments with varying levels of force and stiffness
Design of a haptic arm exoskeleton for training and rehabilitation
The effect of virtual surface stiffness on the haptic perception of detail

2003

Simulated Bilateral Teleoperation of Robonaut
Simplified authoring of 3D haptic content for the World Wide Web
Haptic feedback applications for robonaut
Passive and active assistance for human performance of a simulated underactuated dynamic task
Skill transfer in a simulated underactuated dynamic task

2002

The implications of surface stiffness for size identification and perceived surface hardness in haptic interfaces
The effect of force saturation on the haptic perception of detail

Current Research

Psychophysical Evaluation of Human Motor Adaptation and Skill Retention in Rhythmic Tasks
Cognitive Modeling of Human Motor Skill Acquisition

History

Member for
1 year 11 weeks
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