Boer, N. de (Niek) (2019) How are we able to distinguish possible from impossible actions? In search for an affordance-based control model for lateral manual interception. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
In order to correctly perceive the catchability of a ball, you must not only know if you are at the right path to the interception point but you also have to know something about your abilities to get there in time. Affordance-based control incorporates action boundaries to inform the actor about the catchability of a ball. The aim of the current research is to find an optical variable that describes lateral manual ball interception, that takes into account the action boundaries of the agent. In the experiment, 50 participants had to perform in an interception condition and a judgement condition. Virtual balls moving under an angle had to be intercepted with a physical slider. The results show that the order of performed conditions may have an influence on the ability to correctly perceive the catchability of lateral interception. Nulling the angular change is a proven interception strategy in previous studies. However, discrepancies in the set-up of the current experiment may cause the moment the angle becomes constant and the angular change to become 0 cm/s to differ in time. In conclusion, the lateral interception set-up offers an experiment with the optical angle as the informational variable. However, more research is needed to use this set-up, to find the affordance of catchability. Keywords: affordance-based control, catchability, lateral interception
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Zaal, dr. ir. F.T.J.M. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 12:50 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2022 12:50 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3399 |
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