DocumentCode
1820031
Title
Contact force profiles differ by age during tactile letter recognition with the fingertip
Author
Master, Sabah ; Tremblay, Francois
Author_Institution
Sch. of Psychol., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
fYear
2012
fDate
4-7 March 2012
Firstpage
329
Lastpage
332
Abstract
Contact force profiles deployed at the finger tip in the context of tactile letter recognition were compared in young and older adults. Older adults showed lower normal force and increased letter-to-letter variability in normal force as compared to young adults. This likely contributed to longer contact times and lower performance accuracy in older adults, suggesting a central contribution to the decline with age in tactile letter recognition.
Keywords
force control; haptic interfaces; contact force profile; fingertip; letter-to-letter variability; normal force; tactile letter recognition; Accuracy; Aging; Force; Pattern recognition; Thumb; Vibrations; experimentation; human factors; performance;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0808-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4673-0807-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HAPTIC.2012.6183810
Filename
6183810
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