A model of eye-head-arm interaction during pointing tasks

Author

Magenes, Giovanni ; Buizza, Angelo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf. e Sistemistica, Pavia Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

625

Abstract

The goal of this work is to present a first attempt of modeling eye-head-arm coordination during simultaneous step movements of the three body segments towards a visual target. The model mainly aims at reproducing the results obtained by Vercher et al. (Expt. Brain Res., vol. 99, p. 507-23, 1994) in experiments where gaze and arm shifts in the horizontal plane were produced when pointing at visual targets. The model has been developed starting from a previous model of only eye-head coordination, proposed by Galiana and Guitton (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 656, p. 452-71, 1992)

Keywords

biomechanics; eye; physiological models; arm shifts; body segments; coordination modeling; eye-head-arm interaction model; gaze shifts; horizontal plane; pointing tasks; simultaneous step movements; visual target; Biological control systems; Biological system modeling; Biomechanics; Circuit simulation; Electronic waste; Employee welfare; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Error correction; Head; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.651896

Filename

651896