Title
Combination and Integration in the Perception of Visual-Haptic Compliance Information
Abstract
The compliance of a material can be conveyed through mechanical interactions in a virtual environment and perceived through both visual and haptic cues. We investigated this basic aspect of perception. In two experiments, subjects performed compliance discriminations, and the mean perceptual estimate (PSE) and the perceptual standard deviation (proportional to JND) were derived from psychophysical functions. Experiment 1 supported a model in which each modality acted independently to produce a compliance estimate, and the two estimates were then integrated to produce an overall value. Experiment 2 tested three mathematical models of the integration process. The data ruled out exclusive reliance on the more reliable modality and stochastic selection of one modality. Instead, the results supported an integration process that constitutes a weighted summation of two random variables, which are defined by the single modality estimates. The model subsumes optimal fusion but provided valid predictions also if the weights were not optimal. Weights were optimal (i.e., minimized variance) when vision and haptic inputs were congruent, but not when they were incongruent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TOH.2010.9
IEEE T. Haptics
Keywords
Field
DocType
single modality estimate,compliance discrimination,reliable modality,mean perceptual estimate,mathematical model,haptic cue,compliance estimate,optimal fusion,visual-haptic compliance information,haptic input,integration process,psychology,haptic,reliability,combination,random variable,random variables,vision,standard deviation,perception,virtual reality,virtual environment,visualization,visual perception
Computer vision,Random variable,Computer science,Visualization,Artificial intelligence,Mathematical model,Standard deviation,Perception,Congruence (geometry),Haptic technology,Visual perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
4
1939-1412
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.62
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Kuschel1616.54
Massimiliano Luca2779.90
Martin Buss31799159.02
Roberta L. Klatzky4827160.45