From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: Re: TECH: Question about DHM
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:04:50 CET



In <9301250422.AA24684@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 24, you wrote:

> From: rustle@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Russell Holt)
> Subject: TECH: Question about DHM
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:56:17 GMT
> Organization: Purdue University
> 
>    I've seen pictures of the Dextrous Hand Master, but I'd like to ask anyone
> whose actually used one about it.  On the back of the hand sits a base to
> which the devices measuring the fingers and the thumb are attached.
> This, then, is somehow attached to a wrist strap.  My question is,
> how does this base stay pressed against the hand? How does it keep from
> rocking up and down when the fingers are moved only slightly?  In my
> attempts to construct a glove which measures finger movements in a
> mechanical fasion, I have run into this problem, and am finding it
> difficult to prevent this while keeping it comfortable...

I don't have used it, but I saw some pictures, and there's something
that presses on the palm, making a kind of a "clip".  I don't actually
know whether DHM is confortable.

Diego

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