Vibrotactile transduction and transducers

Mortimer, Bruce J. P.; Zets, Gary A.; Cholewiak, Roger W.

doi:10.1121/1.2715669

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“…For electrotactile stimulation, variations can also be caused by changes in frequency, pulse width, and pulse time delays [91]. Furthermore, temperature and stimulus type affect the spatial acuity for both types of stimulation [83,92].…”

Section: Feedback Requirement 5: Adjustability Of Location and Stimulmentioning

confidence: 99%

Myoelectric forearm prostheses: State of the art from a user-centered perspective

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Boere²,

Witteveen³

et al. 2011

JRRD

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Abstract-User acceptance of myoelectric forearm prostheses is currently low. Awkward control, lack of feedback, and difficult training are cited as primary reasons. Recently, researchers have focused on exploiting the new possibilities offered by advancements in prosthetic technology. Alternatively, researchers could focus on prosthesis acceptance by developing functional requirements based on activities users are likely to perform. In this article, we describe the process of determining such requirements and then the application of these requirements to evaluating the state of the art in myoelectric forearm prosthesis research. As part of a needs assessment, a workshop was organized involving clinicians (representing end users), academics, and engineers. The resulting needs included an increased number of functions, lower reaction and execution times, and intuitiveness of both control and feedback systems. Reviewing the state of the art of research in the main prosthetic subsystems (electromyographic [EMG] sensing, control, and feedback) showed that modern research prototypes only partly fulfill the requirements. We found that focus should be on validating EMG-sensing results with patients, improving simultaneous control of wrist movements and grasps, deriving optimal parameters for force and position feedback, and taking into account the psychophysical aspects of feedback, such as intensity perception and spatial acuity.

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Section: Feedback Requirement 5: Adjustability Of Location and Stimulmentioning

confidence: 99%

Myoelectric forearm prostheses: State of the art from a user-centered perspective

Peerdeman

Boere²,

Witteveen³

et al. 2011

JRRD

408

306

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“…These plunger-type actuators feature a very fast rise time (time reach 90 percent of peak force output) of ~ 5 ms (Ref. 13). The device is tuned to a resonance of approximately 250 Hz, coinciding approximately with the frequency at which the Pacinian corpuscle mechanoreceptors in human skin have maximum sensitivity.…”

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Tactile data entry for extravehicular activity

Adams

Olowin

Hannaford

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference

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“…In this experiment, two EAI C2 Tactors [16] from Engineering Acoustics were chosen to present the different sets of vibrotactile feedback ( Figure 1). The audio feedback was presented through headphones attached to a Nokia N810 Internet touchscreen tablet (europe.nokia.com/nseries/).…”

Section: Experiments Design 31 Stimulimentioning

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Mapping information to audio and tactile icons

Hoggan

Raisamo

Brewster

2009

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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We report the results of a study focusing on the meanings that can be conveyed by audio and tactile icons. Our research considers the following question: how can audio and tactile icons be designed to optimise congruence between crossmodal feedback and the type of information this feedback is intended to convey? For example, if we have a set of system warnings, confirmations, progress updates and errors: what audio and tactile representations best match the information or type of message? Is one modality more appropriate at presenting certain types of information than the other modality? The results of this study indicate that certain parameters of the audio and tactile modalities such as rhythm, texture and tempo play an important role in the creation of congruent sets of feedback when given a specific type of information to transmit. We argue that a combination of audio or tactile parameters derived from our results allows the same type of information to be derived through touch and sound with an intuitive match to the content of the message.

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Vibrotactile transduction and transducers

Cited by 71 publications

References 23 publications

Myoelectric forearm prostheses: State of the art from a user-centered perspective

Myoelectric forearm prostheses: State of the art from a user-centered perspective

Tactile data entry for extravehicular activity

Mapping information to audio and tactile icons

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