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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

It’s All About the Subject - Options to Improve Psychometric Procedure Performance

Authors : Christian Hatzfeld, Viet Quoc Hoang, Mario Kupnik

Published in: Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We investigate the effect of procedure-specific parameters on the performance of three common psychophysical procedures. Methods considered include transformed-staircases, the \(\varPsi \)-method and the UML method, while performance is evaluated in terms of accuracy, efficiency, precision and robustness. Simple Yes/No- and three alternative forced choice response paradigms were considered. A Monte Carlo simulation was conducted for three different types of test persons and analyzed by analysis of variances. Results show a large effect of the test person on the performance, especially for staircase procedures. No parameter exhibited a relevant effect on accuracy for each analyzed methods, estimation precision can be increased with an increasing number of trials. Only for staircase procedures, efficiency can be influenced by the choice of the progression rule.

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Metadata
Title
It’s All About the Subject - Options to Improve Psychometric Procedure Performance
Authors
Christian Hatzfeld
Viet Quoc Hoang
Mario Kupnik
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42320-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-42321-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_36