O'Malley, Marcia K2019-05-162019-05-162017-082017-08-16August 201Clark, Janelle. "Skin Stretch as Haptic Feedback for Upper Limb Prostheses." (2017) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105523">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105523</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105523This thesis investigates two key topics to successfully integrate a skin stretch feedback device into a transradial prosthetic system. The Rice Haptic Rocker (Rocker) is a one degree of freedom haptic device that rotates on an axis, stretching the skin to convey position information. In the first topic, the experimental assessment of the mechanical rocker design and mapping functions create steps to assess perception of users. Second, the functional efficacy of the integrated system, containing the haptic device and a prosthetic arm, is tested in two experiments showing the Rocker is useful for discriminating object sizes and identifying the presence of the cue after focusing on an unrelated task. The results of these experiments inform implentation constraints between an advanced prosthetic device and proprioceptive feedback through skin stretch. Further, the Rice Haptic Rocker can be successfully utilized as proprioceptive feedback of a prosthetic device to a human user.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.haptic feedbackskin stretchsensory feedbacktactile perceptionmyoelectric prosthesesupper limb prostheticsThesis2019-05-16