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In VR, users use their hands (or hand-held controllers) to interact with the environment. However, just as living animals have evolved specialized embodiments that differ from those of a human (e.g. tentacles, wings, prehensile tails, etc.), specialized robotic systems are often designed with non-anthropomorphic embodiments (e.g. treads, wheels, arms with differing degrees of freedom, etc.). Such differences in embodiment between human hands and the robot introduce challenges for the design of intuitive user teleoperation interfaces. This dissertation focuses on designing control schemes for teleoperating non-anthropomorphic robots and specifically investigates the hypothesis that users\u0027 demonstrated preferences can provide a basis for functional, personalized control schemes. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELeveraging Virtual Reality to Identify Personalized Control Schemes for Teleoperating Non-Anthropomorphic Robots\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Leveraging Virtual Reality to Identify Personalized Control Schemes for Teleoperating Non-Anthropomorphic Robots"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2024-01-04 20:45:18","changed_gmt":"2024-01-04 20:45:18","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-01-10T09:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-01-10T11:30:30-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-01-10T11:30:30-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-01-10 14:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-01-10 16:30:30","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-01-10 16:30:30","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Klaus 1120A","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}