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Neuromechanics of a Button Press

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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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To press a button, a finger must push down and pull up with the right force and timing. How the motor system succeeds in button-pressing, in spite of neural noise and lacking direct access to the mechanism of the button, is poorly understood. This paper investigates a unifying account based on neuromechanics. Mechanics is used to model muscles controlling the finger that contacts the button. Neurocognitive principles are used to model how the motor system learns appropriate muscle activations over repeated strokes though relying on degraded sensory feedback. Neuromechanical simulations yield a rich set of predictions for kinematics, dynamics, and user performance and may aid in understanding and improving input devices. We present a computational implementation and evaluate predictions for common button types.

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Oulasvirta, A, Kim, S & Lee, B 2018, Neuromechanics of a Button Press. in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174082

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