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- Title
Pointing with the ankle: the speed-accuracy trade-off.
- Authors
Michmizos, Konstantinos P; Krebs, Hermano Igo
- Abstract
This study investigated the trade-off between speed and accuracy in pointing movements with the ankle during goal-directed movements in dorsal-plantar (DP) and inversion-eversion (IE). Nine subjects completed a series of discrete pointing movements with the ankle between spatial targets of varying difficulty. Six different target sets were presented, with a range of task difficulty between 2.2 and 3.8 bits of information. Our results demonstrated that for visually evoked, visually guided discrete DP and IE ankle pointing movements, performance can be described by a linear function, as predicted by Fitts' law. These results support our ongoing effort to develop an adaptive algorithm employing the speed-accuracy trade-off concept to control our pediatric anklebot while delivering therapy for children with cerebral palsy.
- Publication
Experimental brain research, 2014, Vol 232, Issue 2, p647
- ISSN
1432-1106
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-013-3773-0