Dataset for influence of visual and haptic feedback on the detection of threshold forces in a surgical grasping task

The data is related to minimal force thresholds perception in robotic surgical grasping applications. The experimental setup included an indenter-based haptic device acting on the fingertip of a participant and a visual system that displays grasping tasks by a surgical grasper. The experiments in-cluded the display of two presentations at different force lev -els (i.e., grasping and indentation) in three different modes, namely, visual-alone, haptic-alone, and bimodal (i.e., com-bined). For each mode, the participants were asked to iden-tify which of the two presentations was higher. Each experi-ment was repeated till the termination conditions were met. Sixty participants took part in these experiments. The exper-iments were randomized and the threshold forces were cal-culated based on an algorthim. The datasets contain the in-dividual responses of each participant, the threshold forces calculations, and the number of iterations. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)