Performance study involving a force-reflecting joystick for spastic individuals performing two types of tracking tasks.

Percept Mot Skills

Armstrong Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio 45433-6573, USA.

Published: October 1995

10 upper-extremity spastic subjects and 10 normal subjects were studied with a force-reflecting joystick in the performance of a continuous time-tracking task as well as an acquisition task termed, "Fitts' Law." Certain force-reflection paradigms, in a spatial sense, allowed the spastic subjects to obtain performance proficiency near levels of the normal subjects as measured by a capacity metric.

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