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Haptic Contour Following and Feature Detection with a Contact Location Display

접촉점 표시를 통한 윤곽선 추적 및 돌기 형상 탐지

  • Received : 2013.06.03
  • Accepted : 2013.07.25
  • Published : 2013.08.31

Abstract

We investigate the role of contact location information on the perception of local features during contour following in a virtual environment. An absolute identification experiment is conducted under force-alone and force-plus-contact-location conditions to investigate the effect of the contact location information. The results show that the participants identify the local features significantly better in terms of higher information transfer for the force-plus-contact-location condition, while no significant difference was found for measures of the efficacy of contour following between the two conditions. Further data analyses indicate that the improved identification of local features with contact location information is due to the improved identification of small surface features.

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