Modelling velocity profiles of rapid movements: a comparative study

✍ Scribed by Réjean Plamondon; Adel M. Alimi; Pierre Yergeau; Franck Leclerc

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 961 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-1200
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00226195

✦ Synopsis

In this paper we compare 23 different models that can be used to describe the asymmetric bell-shaped velocity profiles of rapid-aimed movements. The comparison is performed with the help of an analysis-by-synthesis experiment over a database of 1052 straight lines produced by nine human subjects. For each line and for each model, a set of parameters is extracted that minimizes the error between the original and the reconstructed data. Performance analysis on the basis of the mean-square-error clearly reflects the superiority of the support-bounded lognormal model to globally describe the velocity profile characterizing rapid movements.