Automated Adaptive Touch Testing


Clinical testing of touch typically involves manual application of test stimuli. The Sensory Motor Neuroscience (SyMoN) Lab and Obi Robotics are developing an automated approach based on continuously varying stimulus intensity or frequency for assessing touch discrimination ability. Discrimination difficulty is adjusted adaptively up or down to yield 75% correct performance.

Automated Adaptive Touch Testing

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Last updated on Jan 30, 2023 1 min read
Touch Assessment Workshop on Wed 15 March 2023

We are organising a Touch Assessment Workshop on Wed 15 March at the University of Birmingham. There will be expert talks covering touch testing methods including: adaptive touch forceful touch imaging touch painful touch virtual touch aging touch patient experience of neuropathy There will also be Practical demos, Poster sessions, and Lab tours.

Last updated on Jan 30, 2023 1 min read
OTAC in Cardiff

Alan Wing has attended the Occupational Therapy Adaptation Conference (OTAC) meeting in Cardiff on 7th December 2022. He demonstrated the first prototype of the vibrotactile testing system. OTAC meeting

Last updated on Jan 30, 2023 1 min read
OTAC in Glasgow

Alan Wing and Susan Li attended the Glasgow OTAC (Occupational Therapy Adaptation Conference) meeting on 25 January 2023. They presented prototypes of the vibrotactile and indenter adaptive touch testing systems in the exhibition hall and gave a workshop on Assessment of touch in the afternoon.