Title
The impact of gain change on perceiving one's own actions
Abstract
Tool use often challenges the human motor system, especially when these tools require sensorimotor transformations. We report an experiment using a digitizer tablet, in which different gains are intro- duced between the hand movement (proximal effect) and the intended action effect presented on a display (distal effect). The question is how one's own movements are perceived in this situation. With regard to an action-effect account movements are represented and controlled by anticipating the move- ment effects. As a consequence, participants should be less aware of their own hand movements. The reason for this is that what counts for a successful tool use is the representation of the distal effect, not the proximal effect. Our results supported this view. Potential application of this research includes the optimization of the HCI with the imperceptible gain method. It benefits from the human flexibility to compensate for and adapt to smaller biases without any costs.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
Mensch & Computer
proximity effect,motor system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Simulation,Human–computer interaction,Motor system,Engineering
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christine Sutter1132.69
Jochen Müsseler2244.26
Laszlo Bardos340.84
Rafael Ballagas486559.07
Jan Borchers51659154.20