ICP Stockholm 2000 Abstract - Tactile display system: active and passive-guided application.

2000 Stockholm Congress Abstract

Tactile display system: active and passive-guided application

Author Barry Richardson (1), & John M. Kennedy (2)

Location (1) Dep.of Psych.Monash Univ.Australia; (2) Univ.Toronto Ontario

Abstract Number 30506.03

Country Australia

Copy The claim that active perception is better than passive needs reconsideration. First, the distinction is not easy to make. Second, some channels of information in touch are inherently passive, some are not. Third, in artificial conditions no predictions can be made from the claim. Fourth, tactile displays are of many kinds, som favouring passive exploration, som of our studies with raised-line letters and pictures find. Fifth, some active exploration is very demanding cognitively. Sixth, perception may respond to information no matter how it is obtained, actively or passively.

Type SYM

Session Active versus passive touch revisited: The relative importance of cutaneous and kinesthetic information

Convener and Chair Gunnar Jansson, Uppsala University, SWEDEN

Author	Barry Richardson (1), & John M. Kennedy (2)
Location	(1) Dep.of Psych.Monash Univ.Australia; (2) Univ.Toronto Ontario
Abstract Number	30506.03
Country	Australia
Copy	The claim that active perception is better than passive needs reconsideration. First, the distinction is not easy to make. Second, some channels of information in touch are inherently passive, some are not. Third, in artificial conditions no predictions can be made from the claim. Fourth, tactile displays are of many kinds, som favouring passive exploration, som of our studies with raised-line letters and pictures find. Fifth, some active exploration is very demanding cognitively. Sixth, perception may respond to information no matter how it is obtained, actively or passively.
Type	SYM
Session	Active versus passive touch revisited: The relative importance of cutaneous and kinesthetic information
Convener and Chair	Gunnar Jansson, Uppsala University, SWEDEN