Abstract
In a previous study, we found that the accuracy of human haptic perception of force direction is not very high. We also found an effect of physical force direction on the error subjects made, resulting in ‘error patterns’. In the current study, we assessed the between- and within-subject variation of these patterns. The within-subject variation was assessed by measuring the error patterns repeatedly over time for the same set of subjects. Many of these patterns were correlated, which indicates that they are fairly stable over time and thus subject-specific. The between-subject analysis, conversely, yielded hardly any significant correlations. We also measured general subject parameters that might explain this between-subject variation, but these parameters did not correlate with the error patterns. Concluding, we found that the error patterns of haptic perception of force direction are subject-specific and probably governed by an internal subject parameter that we did not yet discover.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Barbagli, F., Salisbury, K., Ho, C., Spence, C., Tan, H.Z.: Haptic discrimination of force direction and the influence of visual information. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 3(2), 125–135 (2006)
Baud-Bovy, G., Gatti, E.: Hand-held object force direction identification thresholds at rest and during movement. In: Kappers, A.M.L., van Erp, J.B.F., Bergmann Tiest, W.M., van der Helm, F.C.T. (eds.) EuroHaptics 2010, Part II. LNCS, vol. 6192, pp. 231–236. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
van Beek, F.E., Bergmann Tiest, W.M., Kappers, A.M.L.: Anisotropy in the haptic perception of force direction and magnitude. IEEE Trans. Haptics 6(4), 399–407 (2013)
Coren, S.: The Left-hander Syndrome. Vintage Books, New York (1993)
Elhajj, I., Weerasinghe, H., Dika, A., Hansen, R.: Human perception of haptic force direction. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 989–993 (2006)
Ho, C., Tan, H.Z., Barbagli, F., Salisbury, K., Spence, C.: Isotropy and visual modulation of haptic force direction discrimination on the human finger. In: Proceedings of the EuroHaptics conference 2006, pp. 483–486 (2006)
Tan, H.Z., Barbagli, F., Salisbury, K., Ho, C., Spence, C.: Force-direction discrimination is not influenced by reference force direction. Haptics-e 4, 1–6 (2006)
Toffin, D., McIntyre, J., Droulez, J., Kemeny, A., Berthoz, A.: Perception and reproduction of force direction in the horizontal plane. J. Neurophysiol. 90(5), 3040–3053 (2003)
Vitello, M.P., Ernst, M.O., Fritschi, M.: An instance of tactile suppression: active exploration impairs tactile sensitivity for the direction of lateral movement. In: Proceedings of the EuroHaptics conference 2006, pp. 351–355 (2006)
Yang, X.-D., Bischof, W.F., Boulanger, P.: The effects of hand motion on haptic perception of force direction. In: Ferre, M. (ed.) EuroHaptics 2008. LNCS, vol. 5024, pp. 355–360. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, which is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and partly funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
van Beek, F.E. et al. (2014). Subject-Specific Distortions in Haptic Perception of Force Direction. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-44192-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-44193-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)