Hello, I am a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Melbourne, Australia. I am interested in topics related to Human-Computer Interaction, particularly on haptic and wearable devices. Currently, I am working on the SpinalLog 2, a simulator that integrates metamaterial technology to improve its haptic fidelity and manufacturability for future commercialisation.
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March 2019
D. Antony Chacon, Eduardo Velloso, Thuong Hoang, and Katrin Wolf.
SpinalLog: Visuo-Haptic Feed-back in Musculoskeletal Manipulation Training. pp. 5 – 14, Best Paper Award
December 2018
D. Antony Chacon and Daisuke Shibato.
Interactive Sensing, Wearable, and Tangible User Interfaces and Support for Programming Activities.
March 2019
D. Antony Chacon.
My past and current research work in Tangible User Interfaces.
antony.chacon [at] unimelb.edu.au
Current techniques for teaching spinal mobilisation follow the traditional classroom approach: an instructor demonstrates a technique and students attempt to emulate it by practising on each other while receiving feedback from the instructor. This paper introduces SpinalLog, a novel tangible user interface (TUI) for teaching and learning spinal mobilisation.
The system was co-designed with physiotherapy experts to look and feel like a human spine, supporting the learning of mobilisation techniques through real-time visual feedback and deformation based passive haptic feedback. We evaluated Physical Fidelity, Visual Feedback, and Passive Haptic Feedback in an experiment to understand their effects on physiotherapy students' ability to replicate a mobilisation pattern recorded by an expert. We found that simultaneous feedback has the largest effect, followed by passive haptic feedback. The high fidelity of the interface has little effect, but it plays an important role in the perception of the system's benefit.
