HAPTIC ASSESSMENT OF VOLITIONAL EFFORT |
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| Dalia De Santis, Jacopo Zenzeri, Pietro Morasso |
- Abstract:
- This study describes pilot experiments of haptic reaching, namely movements aimed at a target in the absence of vision, via haptic interaction. A manipulandum generates a convergent force field which transmits the direction of the target to the subject. The field has a very low intensity, close to the perceptual threshold, and it is pulsed in time, with a smooth profile (0.2 s duration) and a repetition rate of 2 pulses/s. In particular, we developed and tested a novel method for evaluating the degree of active participation to this haptic interaction which may find application in robot therapy of stroke patients and in the design of efficient haptic interfaces.
- Keywords:
- measurement, haptics, force fields, robot therapy
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC18-2013-008.pdf.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC18
- Event name:
- TC18 Symposium 2013
- Title:
- 5th Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions
- Place:
- Vancouver, CANADA
- Time:
- 27 June 2013 - 29 June 2013