The Effect of Vision on Discrimination of Compliance Using a Tool

Autor: Evan Fakhoury, Brian Henson, Peter Culmer
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 30:882-890
ISSN: 1532-7590
1044-7318
Popis: This article describes a psychophysical experiment that investigates the effect of the source of vision on the perception of compliance with a specific focus on palpation, a basic surgical task. Twelve participants were asked to complete 4 forced-choice compliance discrimination tasks representing different modes of surgery when assessing soft human tissue. These tasks were compliance discrimination using direct vision, indirect vision on a computer monitor, only haptic information, and only indirect visual information. In the first 3 tasks, the subjects actively indented pairs of silicone stimuli covering a range of compliances simulating soft human tissue using a tool and were asked to choose which stimulus within each pair felt harder. In the 4th task, participants watched video recordings of the stimuli being indented on a monitor without touching the stimuli themselves. As a control task, participants performed discriminations using their index finger without any visual cues present. The results were...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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