Discrimination of springs with vision, proprioception, and artificial skin stretch cues

Netta Gurari; Jason Wheeler; Amy Shelton; Allison M. Okamura

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Discrimination of springs with vision, proprioception, and artificial skin stretch cues

Netta Gurari, Jason Wheeler, Amy Shelton, Allison M. Okamura

Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences

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During upper-limb prosthesis use, proprioception is not available so visual cues are used to identify the location of the artificial limb. We investigate the efficacy of a skin stretch device for artificially relaying proprioception during a spring discrimination task, with the goal of enabling the task to be achieved in the absence of vision. In this study, intact users perceive the location of a virtual prosthetic limb using each of four sensory conditions: Vision, Proprioception, Skin Stretch, and Skin Stretch with Vision. For the conditions with skin stretch, a haptic device stretches the forearm skin by an amount proportional to the angular rotation of a virtual prosthetic limb. Sensory condition was not found to significantly influence task performance, exploration methods, or perceived usefulness. We conclude that, in the absence of vision, artificial skin stretch could be used by prosthesis wearers to obtain position/motion information and identify the behavior of a spring.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	160-172
Number of pages	13
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7282 LNCS
Issue number	PART 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31401-8_15
State	Published - 2012
Event	International Conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication, EuroHaptics 2012 - Tampere, Finland Duration: Jun 13 2012 → Jun 15 2012

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Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory under the DARPA Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, contract N66001-06-C-8005, a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Brain Science Institute, a travel award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, and Stanford University. We thank Mark Cutkosky and Karlin Bark for their help.

Keywords

Compliance
Proprioception
Prosthetics
Sensory Substitution

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Discrimination of springs with vision, proprioception, and artificial skin stretch cues. / Gurari, Netta; Wheeler, Jason; Shelton, Amy et al.
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7282 LNCS, No. PART 1, 2012, p. 160-172.

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