The powered prosthetic replacement of part or the whole of the human upper limb does not currently provide the user with the sensory information associated with the normal human limb. The artificial provision of part of this missing information might lead to significant improvement of the amputee's performance. This paper describes an objective evaluation of the hypothesis that prosthesis-operator information transfer will be beneficial to a limb-deficient person.
The various ways in which the information transfer could be achieved are discussed, and a rationale is proposed for the choice of vibrotactile stimulation of the skin.
Objective experiments to test the basic hypothesis are presented.
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