Short-term memory characteristics of vibration intensity tactile perception on human wrist.
- Author:
Fei HAO
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;
Li-Juan CHEN
;
Wei LU
;
Ai-Guo SONG
Author Information
1. Department of Instrument Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
2. China Mobile Group Jiangsu Co., Ltd., Research and Development Center, Nanjing 210012, China
3. School of Electric Power Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211167, China
4. College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China. a.g.song@seu.edu.cn.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Memory, Short-Term;
Reaction Time;
Touch;
Touch Perception;
Vibration;
Wrist
- From:
Acta Physiologica Sinica
2014;66(6):683-690
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
In this study, a recall experiment and a recognition experiment were designed to assess the human wrist's short-term memory characteristics of tactile perception on vibration intensity, by using a novel homemade vibrotactile display device based on the spatiotemporal combination vibration of multiple micro vibration motors as a test device. Based on the obtained experimental data, the short-term memory span, recognition accuracy and reaction time of vibration intensity were analyzed. From the experimental results, some important conclusions can be made: (1) The average short-term memory span of tactile perception on vibration intensity is 3 ± 1 items; (2) The greater difference between two adjacent discrete intensities of vibrotactile stimulation is defined, the better average short-term memory span human wrist gets; (3) There is an obvious difference of the average short-term memory span on vibration intensity between the male and female; (4) The mechanism of information extraction in short-term memory of vibrotactile display is to traverse the scanning process by comparison; (5) The recognition accuracy and reaction time performance of vibrotactile display compares unfavourably with that of visual and auditory. The results from this study are important for designing vibrotactile display coding scheme.
