Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus
IntroductionOne-dimensional rating scales are widely used in research and in the clinic to assess individuals’ perceptions of sensory stimuli. Although these scales provide essential knowledge of stimulus perception, their limitation to one dimension hinders our understanding of complex stimuli.Meth...
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| description | IntroductionOne-dimensional rating scales are widely used in research and in the clinic to assess individuals’ perceptions of sensory stimuli. Although these scales provide essential knowledge of stimulus perception, their limitation to one dimension hinders our understanding of complex stimuli.MethodsTo allow improved investigation of complex stimuli, a two-dimensional scale based on the one-dimensional Gracely Box Scale was developed and tested in healthy participants on a visual and an auditory task (rating changes in brightness and size of circles and rating changes in frequency and sound pressure of sounds, which was compared to ratings on one-dimensional scales). Before performing these tasks, participants were familiarized with the intensity descriptors of the two-dimensional scale by completing two tasks. First, participants sorted the descriptors based on their judgment of the intensity of the descriptors. Second, participants evaluated the intensity of the descriptors by pressing a button for the duration they considered matching the intensity of the descriptors or squeezing a hand grip dynamometer as strong as they considered matching the intensity of the descriptors.ResultsResults from these tasks confirmed the order of the descriptors as displayed on the original rating scale. Results from the visual and auditory tasks showed that participants were able to rate changes in the physical attributes of visual or auditory stimuli on the two-dimensional scale as accurately as on one-dimensional scales.DiscussionThese results support the use of a two-dimensional scale to simultaneously report multiple dimensions of complex stimuli. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c6cbd25739e420489e52a508674650a2023-03-03T04:41:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-03-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11276991127699Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulusMarie-Eve Hoeppli0Marie-Eve Hoeppli1Marie-Eve Hoeppli2Taylor S. Thurston3Mathieu Roy4Alan R. Light5Markus Amann6Markus Amann7Richard H. Gracely8Petra Schweinhardt9Petra Schweinhardt10Petra Schweinhardt11Petra Schweinhardt12Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaPediatric Pain Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United StatesDivision of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United StatesDepartment of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartment of Anesthesiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesDepartment of Anesthesiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesVAMC, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesDepartment of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Center for Neurosensory Disorders, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAlan Edwards Center for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaFaculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada0Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada1Integrative Spinal Research, Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, SwitzerlandIntroductionOne-dimensional rating scales are widely used in research and in the clinic to assess individuals’ perceptions of sensory stimuli. Although these scales provide essential knowledge of stimulus perception, their limitation to one dimension hinders our understanding of complex stimuli.MethodsTo allow improved investigation of complex stimuli, a two-dimensional scale based on the one-dimensional Gracely Box Scale was developed and tested in healthy participants on a visual and an auditory task (rating changes in brightness and size of circles and rating changes in frequency and sound pressure of sounds, which was compared to ratings on one-dimensional scales). Before performing these tasks, participants were familiarized with the intensity descriptors of the two-dimensional scale by completing two tasks. First, participants sorted the descriptors based on their judgment of the intensity of the descriptors. Second, participants evaluated the intensity of the descriptors by pressing a button for the duration they considered matching the intensity of the descriptors or squeezing a hand grip dynamometer as strong as they considered matching the intensity of the descriptors.ResultsResults from these tasks confirmed the order of the descriptors as displayed on the original rating scale. Results from the visual and auditory tasks showed that participants were able to rate changes in the physical attributes of visual or auditory stimuli on the two-dimensional scale as accurately as on one-dimensional scales.DiscussionThese results support the use of a two-dimensional scale to simultaneously report multiple dimensions of complex stimuli.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127699/fulltwo-dimensional scaleratingpainfatiguesensory measurementcomputerized scale |
| spellingShingle | Marie-Eve Hoeppli Marie-Eve Hoeppli Marie-Eve Hoeppli Taylor S. Thurston Mathieu Roy Alan R. Light Markus Amann Markus Amann Richard H. Gracely Petra Schweinhardt Petra Schweinhardt Petra Schweinhardt Petra Schweinhardt Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus Frontiers in Psychology two-dimensional scale rating pain fatigue sensory measurement computerized scale |
| title | Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| title_full | Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| title_fullStr | Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| title_short | Development of a computerized 2D rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| title_sort | development of a computerized 2d rating scale for continuous and simultaneous evaluation of two dimensions of a sensory stimulus |
| topic | two-dimensional scale rating pain fatigue sensory measurement computerized scale |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127699/full |
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