TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of Guiding Information from the Elbow to Foot Proprioception During Horizontal Perceptual Tasks in Individuals with Impaired Vision
AU - Uno, Tadashi
AU - Kita, Tetsuya
AU - Loh, Ping Yeap
AU - Muraki, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 19K20001.
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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study examined the effect of guiding information from the elbow on foot proprioception during horizontal perceptual tasks, in individuals who are blind and partially sighted. Eight complete blindness male adults and eight male adults with partially sighted pigmentary retinal degeneration were recruited. Prior to tasks performance, participants acquired gap information (groove length: 5 cm and 20 cm) via a sighted guide which preceded them. Task 1: participants reproduced the length of gaps by stepping their foot forward. Task 2: After the participants acquired the gap information from sighted guide, they performed a gap step-over where it was possible to finish the task within a step. In Task 2, the step length of low-sighted individuals was significantly longer than that of blind individuals in the 20 cm gap width. In this study, the low-sighted individuals tended to predict a larger gap distance than the blind individuals when crossing the gap.
AB - This study examined the effect of guiding information from the elbow on foot proprioception during horizontal perceptual tasks, in individuals who are blind and partially sighted. Eight complete blindness male adults and eight male adults with partially sighted pigmentary retinal degeneration were recruited. Prior to tasks performance, participants acquired gap information (groove length: 5 cm and 20 cm) via a sighted guide which preceded them. Task 1: participants reproduced the length of gaps by stepping their foot forward. Task 2: After the participants acquired the gap information from sighted guide, they performed a gap step-over where it was possible to finish the task within a step. In Task 2, the step length of low-sighted individuals was significantly longer than that of blind individuals in the 20 cm gap width. In this study, the low-sighted individuals tended to predict a larger gap distance than the blind individuals when crossing the gap.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105861327
SN - 9783030732707
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 345
EP - 349
BT - Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
A2 - Taiar, Redha
A2 - Groff, Fabienne
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 4th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Applications, IHIET – AI 2021
Y2 - 28 April 2021 through 30 April 2021
ER -