Many workstations make heavy use of the hands for primary control of a process. If some control tasks can be assigned to the feet, there would be an obvious benefit in having the hands free for other tasks that require a higher level of precision and dexterity. Spatial compatibility between displays and controls is a weighty determinant of performance. This paper proposes a research framework that aims to
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Design and conduct a series of spatial compatibility experiments for measuring human subjects’ response preferences and choice reaction times at different con- figurations of displays and hand and foot controls.
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Investigate the effect of interaction between hand and foot controls in such con- figurations.
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Determine the optimum positional mappings of hand and foot controls with visual signals presented at different planes of displays.
The objective is progress toward an optimal human-machine interface design for improving overall system performance.
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Chan, A.H.S., Chan, K.W.L. (2008). Proposal of New Paradigm for Hand and Foot Controls in the Context of Spatial Compatibility Effect. In: Chan, A.H.S., Ao, SI. (eds) Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74905-1_5
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