An investigation of the relationship between texture and human performance in steering tasks

  • Authors:
  • Minghui Sun;Xiangshi Ren;Shumin Zhai;Toshiharu Mukai

  • Affiliations:
  • Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi & RIKEN, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan;Google Research, Mountain View, California, United States;RIKEN, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Steering law is a fundamental model for steering tasks. Many researchers have investigated it according to different input devices, difficulty of task, subjective bias and scale effect etc. However, there is little study about the effect of surface environments especially on the texture of the interaction surface. In this paper, we experimentally investigated users' performances with various surface textures in steering tasks. Five common but different materials were used to supply different textures. Several potential factors of friction are considered in this study. The results showed that texture has no significant effect on movement time. Users naturally and dynamically adjust their force to suit different textures. In a limited range, the smoother the surface is, the more trajectory errors were performed. Our evaluation also proved that different textures can affect user satisfaction significantly.