A psychophysical investigation on vibrotactile sensing for transradial prosthesis users

Autor: Noor Hazrin Hany Mohamad Hanif, P. H. Chappell, N. M. White, A. W. Cranny
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Cogent Engineering, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2331-1916
23311916
DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2018.1539943
Popis: The absence of tactile sensory feedback in transradial prosthetic hands is one of the major contributing factors for these devices to be rejected by users. This paper reports human psychophysical response to vibrotactile sensations in discriminating surface textures, as a possible non-invasive method to supplement sensory feedback for prosthetic hand users. The vibrotactile sensations were supplied by a specially fabricated actuator that vibrates according to signals obtained by a prosthetic finger when sliding across textured surfaces. Participants were provided with four different types of vibration patterns, randomly repeated for five times and were required to state which surface textures that the vibration patterns represent. A Chi-square test statistical procedure was designed to evaluate the relationships between these two categorical variables. The investigation which comprises of 300 samples has shown a statistically significant relationship between the vibration patterns and the surface textures (p
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