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Investigating The Effects Of Tactile Stress On A Military Touniquet Application Task, Razia Nayeem
Investigating The Effects Of Tactile Stress On A Military Touniquet Application Task, Razia Nayeem
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In combat, soldiers encounter stress from multiple sources including loss of sleep, extremely high levels of physical and psychological discomfort, extended periods of increased vigilance, and intense danger. Therefore, it is imperative to train such personnel on how to cope with these stressors. One way to do this is to include stressors in different forms of training to acclimate soldiers to the subsequent stress of combat. Due to their advantages, tactile trainers are being investigated increasingly for the use of training Army medics in this context. The present work examines how vibrating tactile sensors, or tactors, can be used as …