Title :
Ability to recognize and identify the location of vibration stimulation on the fingers
Author :
Yang Liu ; Yinghua Yu ; Jiajia Yang ; Inai, Yoshinobu ; Jinglong Wu
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Natural Sci. & Technol., Okayama Univ., Okayama, Japan
Abstract :
To investigate the tactile numerosity judgments and position report by simultaneously presenting, we asked human subjects to answer the number and the location of eight vibrations presented to different fingertips on right hand. In numerosity judgments task, we found that the accuracy of participants´ responses decreased as the number of stimuli activated was increased. And as the more stimulus presentation, the answer is smaller than the correct answer. In position report task, we found that index finger has higher accuracy of vibrotactile discrimination than the other fingers. Moreover, the sensitivity of distal phalanx part is higher than middle phalanx.
Keywords :
haptic interfaces; pattern recognition; touch (physiological); vibrations; ability recognition; distal phalanx; fingertips; human subjects; middle phalanx; numerosity judgment; position report; right hand; stimuli activated number; stimulus presentation; vibration stimulation location; vibrotactile discrimination; Accuracy; Educational institutions; Indexes; Piezoelectric transducers; Thumb; Vibrations; Numerosity Judgments; Position Report; Vibrotactile Stimuli;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3978-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2014.6885939