An Extending Fitts' Law for Human Upper Limb Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Human motor behavior is complex and is challenging to understand. Fitts' Law presented a relationship between speed, accuracy, amplitude of movement and target size in upper extremity tasks. In this paper, Fitts' Law was extended from one- dimensional motion to two-dimensional motion in the polar coordinate system for the human upper limb performance. Based on this, a set of indices were proposed. The index of difficulty and the index of performance were introduced as the general indices St for the quality measure of plane pointing movement, which is a basic functional action of upper-limb in human daily life. Five healthy subjects were asked to perform six pointing tasks with different indices of difficulty. All movements were recorded using a motion analysis system. The movement quality was evaluated using these evaluation indices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA411082

Entities

People

  • Cheng Huang
  • D. W. Jin
  • Mei Zhang
  • N. F. Yang
  • R. C. Wang

Organizations

  • Tsinghua University

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  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Amplitude
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Precision
  • Standardization
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional
  • Upper Extremity

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