Human force discrimination during active arm motion for force feedback design

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-319

  Feyzabadi, Seyedshams ^a   Straube, Sirko ^b   Folgheraiter, Michele ^a   Kirchner, Elsa Andrea ^a,b   Kim, Su Kyoung ^a,b   Albiez, Jan Christian ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

biorobotics; human factors; Perception; psychophysics; wearable computers

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; BIO-ROBOTICS; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; JUST-NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE; PERCEPTUAL THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE TASKS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELBOW; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SHOULDER; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELBOW JOINT; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER JOINT; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883819772     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2013.4     Document Type: Article

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