人手腕部振动强度触觉感知的短时记忆特性

Short-term memory characteristics of vibration intensity tactile perception on human wrist

本文设计了一个回忆性实验和一个再认性实验,使用自行研制的振动触觉表达装置作为实验平台,研究了人手腕部的振动强度触觉感知短时记忆特性。首先通过回忆性实验确定了人手腕部的振动强度触觉感知平均记忆容量(简称振动强度记忆容量),然后在记忆容量范围内又进行了再认性实验,对人手腕部的振动触觉再认正确率和反应时进行了数据分析。通过实验,我们得到人手腕部振动强度触觉感知相关的5个重要特性:(1)振动强度记忆容量为3±1;(2)振动触觉刺激的振动强度离散间隔越大,振动强度记忆容量就越大;(3)振动强度记忆容量具有显著的性别差异;(4)振动触觉短时记忆信息的提取是逐个比较的遍历扫描过程;(5)触觉感知再认正确率和反应时表现均远逊于视觉和听觉。这些实验结果有助于充分了解人体的触觉感知特性,是振动触觉表达编码方案的重要设计依据。

In this study, a recall experiment and a recognition experiment were designed to assess the human wrist’s short-term memory characteristics of tactile perception on vibration intensity, by using a novel homemade vibrotactile display device based on the spatiotemporal combination vibration of multiple micro vibration motors as a test device. Based on the obtained experimental data, the short-term memory span, recognition accuracy and reaction time of vibration intensity were analyzed. From the experimental results, some important conclusions can be made：（1） The average short-term memory span of tactile perception on vibration intensity is 3 ± 1 items;（2） The greater difference between two adjacent discrete intensities of vibrotactile stimulation is defined, the better average short-term memory span human wrist gets;（3） There is an obvious difference of the average short-term memory span on vibration intensity between the male and female;（4） The mechanism of information extraction in short-term memory of vibrotactile display is to traverse the scanning process by comparison;（5） The recognition accuracy and reaction time performance of vibrotactile display compares unfavourably with that of visual and auditory. The results from this study are important for designing vibrotactile display coding scheme.