From: S.A.Bensalem@sheffield.ac.uk
Subject: TECH: Test for Gloves.
Date: 26 Mar 93 17:09:28 BST



Hi every one, and two...

I'd like to clarify something, we have built a glove which accuracy is
2 Degrees in flexion of any joints of the 5 fingers of our hand. The
glove is actually improved and we're building a new model.  I keep the
information confidential because we'd like to Publish/patent whatever
we can.

Here we have some problems:

1/ No Technical documentation about gloves is available.
2/ How to test the accuracy of the glove ?

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1/ For the Technical documentation we just had the number of the
Patents (ordered) of gloves already developed, But no other sources of
technical info.

2/ To test the accuracy of our glove, we asked a user to wear the
glove and to describe 0, 10, 20, ..80, 90 degrees with his fingers. he
had to do that with his hand on a piece of carboard describing the
desired angle. for all the test the results gave us an accuracy of 1
to 2 Degree. Then we asked the user to describe 20 times a bending of
10, 45 then 90 Degrees and we had results in the same range than
previously. I wondered if we should do other tests, but I do not have
any idea about something different than what we've done. We haven't
yet started the test on the location but this should be done soon, as
we are improving the formula calculating the position of the hand.

ANY INFO , please e-mail.

I kept the list of people who asked me info on my previous message
about the glove, I'll mail them what I can as possible.

Thanks a lot, Virtually,

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