Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer

Current remote-control interfaces are difficult to operate intuitively while viewing the entire remote display and require familiarity with the operation. The space within an individual’s reach, called the peri-personal space (PPS), assists them in planning their physical movements. Hence...

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Main Authors: Kento Yamamoto, Yaonan Zhu, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Masaru Takeuchi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109653/
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author Kento Yamamoto
Yaonan Zhu
Tadayoshi Aoyama
Masaru Takeuchi
Yasuhisa Hasegawa
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Tadayoshi Aoyama
Masaru Takeuchi
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description Current remote-control interfaces are difficult to operate intuitively while viewing the entire remote display and require familiarity with the operation. The space within an individual’s reach, called the peri-personal space (PPS), assists them in planning their physical movements. Hence, manipulating objects outside one’s PPS is more difficult than doing so inside it. Therefore, this study aimed to develop an interface that creates the illusion of an operator’s finger being transferred to a remote display and transfers the PPS to the virtual finger in the display. To transfer the PPS to a manipulated object, it is necessary to enhance the user’s sense of agency and ownership toward the manipulated target by ensuring it is similar in shape and motion to the user’s body. Long-term input testing confirmed that by transferring the PPS to a virtual finger, there is no significant difference, as suggested by a t-test between the coefficients of the learning curves outside and inside the PPS. Furthermore, when users learned to manipulate the virtual finger outside the PPS under conditions that impaired their sense of agency, even after two weeks of learning, the PPS was not continuously transferred to the virtual finger for more than seven minutes from the start of the virtual finger operation. The experimental results demonstrated that the interface enabled the display located outside the PPS to be operated with the same degree of operability as inside the PPS from the start of the operation, even with a short learning period.
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spelling doaj.art-9cc06e04f62149de91c7c68ed918f51e2023-05-12T23:00:31ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111439624397410.1109/ACCESS.2023.327100310109653Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space TransferKento Yamamoto0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-9890Yaonan Zhu1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2806-014XTadayoshi Aoyama2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-0725Masaru Takeuchi3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9304-4667Yasuhisa Hasegawa4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9917-098XDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanCurrent remote-control interfaces are difficult to operate intuitively while viewing the entire remote display and require familiarity with the operation. The space within an individual’s reach, called the peri-personal space (PPS), assists them in planning their physical movements. Hence, manipulating objects outside one’s PPS is more difficult than doing so inside it. Therefore, this study aimed to develop an interface that creates the illusion of an operator’s finger being transferred to a remote display and transfers the PPS to the virtual finger in the display. To transfer the PPS to a manipulated object, it is necessary to enhance the user’s sense of agency and ownership toward the manipulated target by ensuring it is similar in shape and motion to the user’s body. Long-term input testing confirmed that by transferring the PPS to a virtual finger, there is no significant difference, as suggested by a t-test between the coefficients of the learning curves outside and inside the PPS. Furthermore, when users learned to manipulate the virtual finger outside the PPS under conditions that impaired their sense of agency, even after two weeks of learning, the PPS was not continuously transferred to the virtual finger for more than seven minutes from the start of the virtual finger operation. The experimental results demonstrated that the interface enabled the display located outside the PPS to be operated with the same degree of operability as inside the PPS from the start of the operation, even with a short learning period.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109653/Peri-personal spacesense of agencysense of ownershipvirtual finger
spellingShingle Kento Yamamoto
Yaonan Zhu
Tadayoshi Aoyama
Masaru Takeuchi
Yasuhisa Hasegawa
Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
IEEE Access
Peri-personal space
sense of agency
sense of ownership
virtual finger
title Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
title_full Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
title_fullStr Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
title_full_unstemmed Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
title_short Improvement in the Manipulability of Remote Touch Screens Based on Peri-Personal Space Transfer
title_sort improvement in the manipulability of remote touch screens based on peri personal space transfer
topic Peri-personal space
sense of agency
sense of ownership
virtual finger
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109653/
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