A core set of five mouse trajectory prototypes including the 'straight' trajectory, the mildly curved trajectory, the continuous change-of-mind trajectory, the discrete change-of-mind trajectory, and the double discrete change-of-mind trajectory.
mt_prototypesAn object of class array of dimension 5 x 100 x 2.
Mouse- and hand-trajectories often occur in types (Wulff, Haslbeck, &
Schulte-Mecklenbeck, 2017). In such cases, movement trajectory data should be
analyzed in terms of discrete type assignments. To this end mt_map can
be used to map mouse- or hand-trajectory to the closest of several predefined
prototypes. mt_prototypes provides a core set of prototypes that has
been shown to represent well a large fraction of empirical movement
trajectories.
To tailor the set of prototypes to a given study, mt_prototypes can be
extended using mt_add_trajectory.
Wulff, D. U., Haslbeck, J. M. B., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M. (2018). Measuring the (dis-)continuous mind: What movement trajectories reveal about cognition. Manuscript in preparation.