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In order to explore the contact force characteristics of fingers in grasping objects, this paper invited persons of different gender and studied their finger contact force distribution when they grasped bottles with 500 g water and 4 different surface materials. Experiment data of 54 subjects (27 male, 27 female) were collected by a thin film pressure sensor. Analysis indicated that the mean value of contact force (MVCF) of the thumb and middle finger was significantly higher than that of the index and ring finger, and the MVCF of the four fingers of male was higher than that of the female. And the independent samples t-tests and variance analysis results showed that the MVCF of thumb, index and middle finger was affected by the bottle material (p < 0.01). The MVCF of the ring finger was not affected by the material of bottles since its result was not significant (P = 0.258 > 0.01).
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We express our gratitude to all the subjects who participated in this work. The research is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (grant 2020A1515010397 and 2021A1515010934).
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Ji, R., Li, Z., Fan, J., Zhu, Y., Jiang, L. (2021). Research on the Finger Contact Force of Persons of Different Gender as Grasping Bottles. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_13
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