RLE Progress Report No 133
Abstract
The Sensory Communication Group is conducting research on the auditory and tactual senses, speech-reception aids (both auditory and tactual) for individuals who are hearing-impaired or deaf, and human-machine interfaces for teleoperator and virtual-environment systems (involving the visual as well as the auditory and tactual senses). Within the domain of hearing aids, research is being conducted on systems that bypass the outer and middle ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve electrically (cochlear prostheses), as well as on systems that stimulate the system acoustically. The research on taction is focused not only on speech reception for the totally deaf, but also on the ability of the human had to sense and manipulate the environment. Within the domain of human interfaces, topics of special interest concern the development of principles for mapping the human sensorimotor system into non-anthropomorphic slave mechanisms (or the equivalent in virtual space) and the ability of the human sensorimotor system to adapt to alterations of normal sensorimotor loops caused by the presence of the interface.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA240154
Entities
People
- Nathaniel I. Durlach
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology