Body Schema Updating in Experiencing Differently Sized Hands

• Project/Area Number: 21700147
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Media informatics/Database
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: TERABAYASHI Kenji Chuo University, 理工学部, 助教 (20509161)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: バーチャルリアリティ / 手 / 身体図式 / 疑似体験 / 製品評価 / ヒューマンインタフェース

Research Abstract

It is important to consider the size variation of user's hands for assessing usability of hand-held tools because the usability depends on hand sizes. This assessment requires a lot of time and costs for testers whose hands are different in size respectively. It is impossible for designers to feel the tester's sensation which is induced by touching and operating the tools, which means the designers cannot improve the usability based on the tester's feeling. The study investigates experiencing differently sized hands to provide the feeling from assessment with variously sized hands to the designers. The main finding is the effective way to change hand sizes to experience.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Role of Pre-Operation in Experiencing Differently Sized Hands (2010)
  • Author(s): Kenji Terabayashi, Natsuki Miyata, Kazunori Umeda, Jun Ota
  • Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics Vol.14, No.7 Pages: 793-801
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Role of Pre-Operation in Experiencing Differently Sized Hands (2010)
  • Author(s): Kenji Terabayashi, Natsuki Miyata, Kazunori Umeda, Jun Ota
  • Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics Volume: 14-7 Pages: 793-801
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Effective Adaptation to Experience of Different-sized Hand (2009)
  • Author(s): Kenji Terabayashi
  • Organizer: 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-01
• [Presentation] Effective Adaptation to Experience of Different-sized Hand (2009)
  • Author(s): Kenji Terabayashi
  • Organizer: 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing
  • Place of Presentation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-01
• [Presentation] 疑似体験する手の大きさの変化に応じた効果的な適応促進 (2009)
  • Author(s): 寺林賢司
  • Organizer: 第14回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学(東京都)
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-10
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