Use of sensor technology to explore the science of touch.

1. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;163:542-8.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21335853

Salud LH, Pugh CM.

Northwestern University, Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine.

Two, world-renown researchers in the science of touch (Klatzky and Lederman) have
shown that there are a set of reproducible and subconscious maneuvers that humans
use to explore objects. Force measuring sensors may be used to electronically
identify and quantify these maneuvers. Two sensored silicone breast models were
configured to represent two different clinical presentations. One-hundred
clinicians attending a local breast cancer meeting performed clinical breast
examinations on the models, and their performance was captured using sensor-based
data acquisition technology. We have found that Klatzy and Lederman's previously
defined touch maneuvers are used during the clinical breast examination and can
be identified and quantified for the first time using sensor technology.


PMID: 21335853 [PubMed - in process]