Information from time-varying vibrotactile stimuli |
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Authors: | IR Summers PG Cooper P Wright DA Gratton P Milnes BH Brown |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. |
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Abstract: | Experiments have been carried out to investigate the information transfer available via a single vibrator on the fingertip. In a first experiment, for stimuli with durations 80 to 320 ms, discrimination of a one-octave step change in frequency at the halfway point was investigated. Results were similar for three stimulus types--sinewave, monophasic pulse and tetraphasic pulse--suggesting temporal cues are more important than spectral cues in this task. In a second experiment, subjects were required to perceive changes in a sequence of stimulus elements. A presentation rate of 6.25 elements s-1 was found to give better results than a rate of 12.5 elements s-1. In the former case, the potential information transfer per element was estimated to be approximately 1.0 bits, corresponding to an information transfer rate of around 6 bits s-1. Implications for the design of a tactile aid to lipreading are discussed. |
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