Development and Deployment of a Scalable IoT Framework for Digital Farming Applications

Digital Twins and Healthcare: Quick Overview and Human-Centric Perspectives

“…A recent opinion paper proposed the term of "Phygital Twins" in neuroergonomics (the discipline that, according to neuroscientific methods, investigates and improves the interactions between a person and the other elements of a system) applied to HRI design [25]. This neologism -previously used in [90] to label an IoT setup collecting data to depict an environment in precision agriculture applications -refers to the opportunity of blending physical and real dimensions in "phygital" spaces and interactions [91,92], possibly as extensions of Tactile User Interfaces (TUIs) within a general trend of virtuality-reality confluence [41] that involves healthcare too [93]. Interestingly, such a trend matches the expectations underlying the most recent ways to define the metaverse, a digital world possibly encompassing and intertwining cyber-physical systems and Digital Twins with their connection with the real world [94].…”

Beyond Digital Twins: Phygital Twins for Neuroergonomics in Human-Robot Interaction

“…Following this reasoning, we decided to highlight the opportunity of emulating a PT through what we labeled as a "Phygital Twin." This term has already been used by Sarangi et al (2018) to describe an IoT setup designed to collect data and represent an environment (even through portable devices) to assist a farmer in precision agriculture paradigms. However, we envisioned the usage of this label for a wider class of solutions by pondering the meaning of the "phygital" attribute outside the domain of twinning processes.…”

“…Performing holistic, physical, and reality-based interaction with a robotic system is more intuitive for the user than contactless gestures to program or command the device and change its state to accomplish a task (Jacob et al, 2008 ; Heun et al, 2013 ; Blackler et al, 2019 ; Ravichandar et al, 2020 ). Following this reasoning, we decided to highlight the opportunity of emulating a PT through what we labeled as a “Phygital Twin.” This term has already been used by Sarangi et al ( 2018 ) to describe an IoT setup designed to collect data and represent an environment (even through portable devices) to assist a farmer in precision agriculture paradigms. However, we envisioned the usage of this label for a wider class of solutions by pondering the meaning of the “phygital” attribute outside the domain of twinning processes.…”