Using Kinesthetic and Tactile Cues to Maintain Exercise Intensity

Ferber, A.R.; Peshkin, Michael A.; Colgate, J. Edward

doi:10.1109/toh.2009.22

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“…While promising, es have not been tested. nto exercise equipment have been found to be effective exercise intensity [10]. The use of haptic cues in exergam ve levels of exercise has not been explored.…”

Section: Guiding Players To Samentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Haptic Feedback in Exergames

Stach

Graham

2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract. Exergames combine entertainment and exercise in an effort to encourage people to be more physically active. Although exergames require active input, interactions are less physical than those experienced in real-world exercise. Interactions can feel artificial, limiting the captivating experience exergames aim to provide. To address this problem, haptics have been proposed as a means of providing additional feedback to players through the sense of touch. However, there is very little empirical evidence supporting the benefits of haptics in exergames. To address this, we have identified and evaluated three ways in which haptic feedback can enhance exergames: by helping to balance group exercise among people of different fitness levels, by guiding players toward safe and healthy interaction, and by increasing peoples' sense of virtual presence in exergames. We present three novel exergames incorporating haptic feedback, and report on experiments investigating their success. We find that haptics which are consistent with actions displayed on-screen increase immersion and improve enjoyment. However, we discover pitfalls when using haptics to represent phenomena that do not have a physical basis. These results allow us to present a set of design issues for haptic feedback in exergames.

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Section: Guiding Players To Samentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Haptic Feedback in Exergames

Stach

Graham

2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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“…These can be provided by devices such as LinkTouch [ 27 ] and MIMIC [ 28 ]. Thus, provision of haptic cues can be achieved through devices that deliver kinesthetic and tactile sensations to the user [ 29 ].…”

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Evaluating the effects of delivering integrated kinesthetic and tactile cues to individuals with unilateral hemiparetic stroke during overground walking

Afzal

Pyo

et al. 2018

J NeuroEngineering Rehabil

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BackgroundIntegration of kinesthetic and tactile cues for application to post-stroke gait rehabilitation is a novel concept which needs to be explored. The combined provision of haptic cues may result in collective improvement of gait parameters such as symmetry, balance and muscle activation patterns. Our proposed integrated cue system can offer a cost-effective and voluntary gait training experience for rehabilitation of subjects with unilateral hemiparetic stroke.MethodsTen post-stroke ambulatory subjects participated in a 10 m walking trial while utilizing the haptic cues (either alone or integrated application), at their preferred and increased gait speeds. In the system a haptic cane device (HCD) provided kinesthetic perception and a vibrotactile feedback device (VFD) provided tactile cue on the paretic leg for gait modification. Balance, gait symmetry and muscle activity were analyzed to identify the benefits of utilizing the proposed system.ResultsWhen using kinesthetic cues, either alone or integrated with a tactile cue, an increase in the percentage of non-paretic peak activity in the paretic muscles was observed at the preferred gait speed (vastus medialis obliquus: p < 0.001, partial eta squared (η2) = 0.954; semitendinosus p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.793) and increased gait speeds (vastus medialis obliquus: p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.881; semitendinosus p = 0.028, partial η2 = 0.399). While using HCD and VFD (individual and integrated applications), subjects could walk at their preferred and increased gait speeds without disrupting trunk balance in the mediolateral direction. The temporal stance symmetry ratio was improved when using tactile cues, either alone or integrated with a kinesthetic cue, at their preferred gait speed (p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.702).ConclusionsWhen combining haptic cues, the subjects walked at their preferred gait speed with increased temporal stance symmetry and paretic muscle activity affecting their balance. Similar improvements were observed at higher gait speeds. The efficacy of the proposed system is influenced by gait speed. Improvements were observed at a 20% increased gait speed, whereas, a plateau effect was observed at a 40% increased gait speed. These results imply that integration of haptic cues may benefit post-stroke gait rehabilitation by inducing simultaneous improvements in gait symmetry and muscle activity.

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“…Differently from other works on cutaneous feedback (CF), the device presented in this paper is not of the array type as discussed, for instance, in [26] and [27], but it allows to apply vertical stresses to the finger pad, similarly to the gravity grabber presented in [28]. The role of cutaneous feedback in haptics, compared to kinesthetic feedback, has been recently discussed and exploited, for example, in [29], where Wijntjes et al discussed the effects of kinesthetic and cutaneous information for curvature discrimination, in [30], where Ferber et al investigated cutaneous and kinesthetic cues to maintain exercise intensity on a stair climber machine and in [31] where the problem of missed kinesthetic feedback in wearable haptics is discussed. All these papers underline how relevant is the cutaneous feedback when compared to kinesthesia.…”

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Cutaneous Force Feedback as a Sensory Subtraction Technique in Haptics

Prattichizzo

Pacchierotti

Rosati

2012

IEEE Trans. Haptics

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Abstract-A novel sensory substitution technique is presented. Kinesthetic and cutaneous force feedback are substituted by cutaneous feedback (CF) only, provided by two wearable devices able to apply forces to the index finger and the thumb, while holding a handle during a teleoperation task. The force pattern, fed back to the user while using the cutaneous devices, is similar, in terms of intensity and area of application, to the cutaneous force pattern applied to the finger pad while interacting with a haptic device providing both cutaneous and kinesthetic force feedback. The pattern generated using the cutaneous devices can be thought as a subtraction between the complete haptic feedback (HF) and the kinesthetic part of it. For this reason, we refer to this approach as sensory subtraction instead of sensory substitution. A needle insertion scenario is considered to validate the approach. The haptic device is connected to a virtual environment simulating a needle insertion task. Experiments show that the perception of inserting a needle using the cutaneous-only force feedback is nearly indistinguishable from the one felt by the user while using both cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback. As most of the sensory substitution approaches, the proposed sensory subtraction technique also has the advantage of not suffering from stability issues of teleoperation systems due, for instance, to communication delays. Moreover, experiments show that the sensory subtraction technique outperforms sensory substitution with more conventional visual feedback (VF).

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Using Kinesthetic and Tactile Cues to Maintain Exercise Intensity

Cited by 4 publications

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Exploring Haptic Feedback in Exergames

Exploring Haptic Feedback in Exergames

Evaluating the effects of delivering integrated kinesthetic and tactile cues to individuals with unilateral hemiparetic stroke during overground walking

Cutaneous Force Feedback as a Sensory Subtraction Technique in Haptics

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