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In human limbs, tendon vibration evokes the feeling of illusory movement, which is a kinesthetic sensation experienced in the absence of any actual joint movement. This phenomenon can be effectively used to generate kinesthetic sensation in virtual-reality settings, which can solve a variety of problems. However, its implementation remains limited due to the hitherto-unclear relationship between stimulus and perceptual characteristics. This study is aimed at examining the effects of the size of contact surfaces on the illusory kinesthetics evoked by tendon vibration. Tendons of the biceps brachii in the dominant-side arm of five participants were stimulated for 30 s at 100 Hz and 120 m/s2 by a vibration device. Contact heads of different sizes (φ5, φ10, φ15, and φ20 mm) were tested on subjects. The shoulder was held stationary on an armrest at a flexion of 90° while the elbow was flexed at 0°—both in the midsagittal plane, with palms facing upwards. After the experiment, participants were asked to take two subjective evaluations based on the visual analog scale, pertaining to the vividness (1: weak, 5: clear) and range of extension of their elbow-joint angle (1: slight, 5: significant). During the illusory motion, both these parameters increased with the size of the contact surface. Thus, we concluded the perceptual characteristics of the illusory movement to be affected by the size of the contact surface.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19K20105.
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Ohshima, H., Shimada, S. (2021). Influence of the Contact Surface Size on the Illusory Movement Induced by Tendon Vibrations. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_72
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