Multi-modal sensory feedback based on a mathematical model of human perception

Display of information to the operator in advanced physical and virtual telepresence systems has to comprise different modalities of human perception. Especially concerning the haptic modalities, model-based generation of appropriate stimuli to the operator is an important task. For this reason future research in telepresence and virtual reality requires a mathematical model of human perception due to external stimuli produced by feedback devices in a multi-modal telepresence system. The paper presents a mathematical framework for describing the principles of human perception in the terminology of systems theory. Formal descriptions of experiments performed in a virtual environment show the viability and advantage from the presented approach