Training Effects of a Visual Aid on Haptic Sensitivity in a Needle Insertion Task

Emilio Loren Roth Monzon (1) , Amine Chellali (1) , Cédric Dumas (2) , Caroline Gl Cao (3)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes
2 CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra]
3 EREL - Ergonomics in Remote Environments Laboratory

This paper describes an experiment conducted to measure human's haptic sensitivity and the effects of haptic training with and without visual aid on a needle insertion task. The haptic training protocol consisted of a needle insertion task using dual-layer silicon samples. A visual aid was provided as a multimodal cue for haptic perception. Results show that for a novices' group, training with a visual aid inhibited haptic perception. Hence, haptic skills must be trained differently from visuo-motor skills.

Mots clés: visual aid; Haptic perception; haptic training; needle insertion; visual aid.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Emilio Loren Roth Monzon, Amine Chellali, Cédric Dumas, Caroline Gl Cao. Training Effects of a Visual Aid on Haptic Sensitivity in a Needle Insertion Task. IEEE Haptics Symposium 2012, Mar 2012, Vancouver, Canada. pp.199-202. ⟨hal-00665855⟩