An Estimation and Comparison of Human Abilities to Communicate Information Through Pursuit Tracking vs. Pointing on a Single Axis

Using a Pursuit Tracking Task to Compare Continuous Control of Various NIME Sensors

“…The maximum touch strip sensor mean channel capacity of 2.37 bits/sec at 3.22 Hz is lower than the mean of 3.98 bits/sec at 2.9 Hz of a related experimental trial with colocated target signal and sensor [10]. This could possibly be attributed to the separation of the presentation of the target signal from the sensor interface.…”

“…This study employs a model [8] developed in recent studies of pursuit tracking with continuous-control sensors as a comparison [9] and in relation to pointing [10], extending earlier work [11] [12][13] [14] [15] In the present model, it is assumed that a performer attempting to express a signal as a continuous input of a sensor apparatus will generate a signal with some difference between these two, labeled , which may be attributed to neuromotor noise, interference, sensor noise or other causes of error (see Figure 1). The user's input signal is modeled to be attenuated by the constant factor , which represents the deterministic component of a user's performance.…”