Skill Evaluation from Observation of Discrete Hand Movements during Console Operation

This paper focused on discrete movements of hand in reaching actions, which necessarily occur during machine operation. The relationship between the performance of a console operation and the operator's reaching actions was investigated by applying Fitts' law and by examining a state trans...

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Main Authors: Satoshi Suzuki, Fumio Harashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/967379
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description This paper focused on discrete movements of hand in reaching actions, which necessarily occur during machine operation. The relationship between the performance of a console operation and the operator's reaching actions was investigated by applying Fitts' law and by examining a state transition of the operation. A remote operation experimental system was built using two radio controlled construction equipments, and the operator training process was analyzed empirically with those methods. The results showed the covariance of the fitting error to Fitts' law decreased as the operators' skill improved, although the fitting itself to the law was not sufficiently good. And it was confirmed that the covariance of difficulty index of the reaching action increased. These facts indicated that skill level of the discrete motion during operation can be estimated by investigating two types of the covariance.
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spelling doaj-art-a48dc32b8a814bf2b26cabb17001e4852025-02-03T05:45:42ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96001687-96192010-01-01201010.1155/2010/967379967379Skill Evaluation from Observation of Discrete Hand Movements during Console OperationSatoshi Suzuki0Fumio Harashima1Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, Tokyo Denki University, 2-2 Kanda-Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8457, JapanTokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-Shi, Tokyo 192-0397, JapanThis paper focused on discrete movements of hand in reaching actions, which necessarily occur during machine operation. The relationship between the performance of a console operation and the operator's reaching actions was investigated by applying Fitts' law and by examining a state transition of the operation. A remote operation experimental system was built using two radio controlled construction equipments, and the operator training process was analyzed empirically with those methods. The results showed the covariance of the fitting error to Fitts' law decreased as the operators' skill improved, although the fitting itself to the law was not sufficiently good. And it was confirmed that the covariance of difficulty index of the reaching action increased. These facts indicated that skill level of the discrete motion during operation can be estimated by investigating two types of the covariance.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/967379
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