Evaluation of force and torque magnitude discrimination thresholds on the human hand-arm system

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Vicentini, M ^a   Galvan, S ^a   Botturi, D ^a   Fiorini, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Force thresholds; Perceptual asymmetries; Perceptual based signal processing

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; EXPERIMENTAL WORKS; FORCE PERCEPTION; FORCE SIGNAL; FORCE THRESHOLDS; HAND-ARM SYSTEM; HAPTIC DEVICES; HAPTIC PERCEPTION; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN HANDS; PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRIES; PERCEPTUAL-BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELE-OPERATIONS; USER PERCEPTIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 78649338581     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1857893.1857894     Document Type: Article

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