Title :
Comparison of remote pressure and vibrotactile feedback for prosthetic hand control
Author :
Tejeiro, C. ; Stepp, Cara E. ; Malhotra, Manav ; Rombokas, Eric ; Matsuoka, Yasutaka
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Prosthetic hand users may benefit from incorporation of sensory feedback, but the optimal methods of providing such feedback are still unknown. The effect on object manipulation of adding vibrotactile and pressure feedback at remote body sites to visual feedback was assessed in 8 participants using a virtual and robotic interface. Both pressure and vibrotactile feedback improved some aspects of task performance when compared to visual feedback alone; however, no difference in object manipulation performance was seen between pressure and vibrotactile feedback.
Keywords :
biocontrol; prosthetics; tactile sensors; object manipulation; optimal methods; pressure feedback; prosthetic hand control; remote body sites; remote pressure comparison; robotic interface; sensory feedback; vibrotactile feedback; virtual interface; Force; Prosthetic hand; Robot sensing systems; Vibrations; Virtual environments; Visualization; Upper limb prosthetics; pressure feedback; sensory substitution; vibrotactile feedback;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1199-2
DOI :
10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290268