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- From: crocker@qucis.queensu.ca (Sandra Crocker)
- Subject: A.I. AND ROBOTICS SEMINAR SERIES
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.184140.2366@qucis.queensu.ca>
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- Keywords: Human-Machine interfaces (haptic and auditory), virtual-environment
- Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University
- Distribution: ont
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:41:40 GMT
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- ROBOTICS AND A. I. SEMINAR SERIES
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- Walter Light hall
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- Room 210
- 3:00 pm
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- HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES
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- FOR VIRTUAL-ENVIRONMENT AND TELEOPERATOR SYSTEMS
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- Nathaniel I. Durlach and Mandayam A. Srinivasan
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- Research Laboratory of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Dept.
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- Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Research Consortium
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave,
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- Cambridge, MA 02138
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- ABSTRACT
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- In both teleoperator and virtual-environment systems, the human
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- operator is projected into a new interactive environment mediated by
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- artificial electronic and electromechanical devices. The operator's
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- performance, experience, and source of presence in these new
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- environments depends strongly on the human-machine interface and the
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- associated environmental interactions.
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- After presenting some general introductory remarks concerning
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- these two types of systems, we will discuss some specific research
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- problems in the areas of (1) haptic interfaces (i.e., interfaces for
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- manual sensing and manipulation) and (2) auditory interfaces.
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- The design specifications for haptic interfaces are determined
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- not only by the tasks to be performed, but also by the biomechanical,
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- sensorimotor and cognitive abilities associated with the human haptic
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- system. In this talk, we will focus on the mechanistic and
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- information-processing aspects of our sense of touch, drawing upon
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- empirical results from biomechanics, neurophysiology, and
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- psychophysics.
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- In the portion of our talk concerned with auditory interfaces, we
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- will discuss recent work research on human responses to intentional
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- distortion of auditory localization cues to achieve supernormal
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- auditory localization performance.
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