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A comparison of kinesthetic-tactual and visual displays via a critical tracking taskThe feasibility of using the critical tracking task to evaluate kinesthetic-tactual displays was examined. The test subjects were asked to control a first-order unstable system with a continuously decreasing time constant by using either visual or tactual unidimensional displays. The results indicate that the critical tracking task is both a feasible and a reliable methodology for assessing tactual tracking. Further, that the critical tracking methodology is as sensitive and valid a measure of tactual tracking as visual tracking is demonstrated by the approximately equal effects of quickening for the tactual and visual displays.
Document ID
19790045707
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Jagacinski, R. J.
(Ohio State Univ. Columbus, OH, United States)
Miller, D. P.
(Ohio State Univ. Columbus, OH, United States)
Gilson, R. D.
(Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1979
Publication Information
Publication: Human Factors
Volume: 21
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Accession Number
79A29720
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSG-2179
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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