The 1st meeting of EMP Seminar Series in Academic Year 2014
The agenda of the 1st meeting of the EMP Seminar Series is outlined below.
Date and time: 6:30-7:30 pm, Thursday, October 16, 2014
Venue: Room 3B213, Area 3, Tsukuba Campus, University of Tsukuba
Organizer: Jun Izawa (Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems)
Presenter: Atsushi Takagi
PhD Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanrobotics/research
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanrobotics/people/atsushitakagi
Title: Human-human motor interaction through a compliant connection
Abstract:
Physical interaction is crucial to obtaining new skills such as learning to walk, or to reacquire lost ones in rehabilitation and physiotherapy. However, the benefits of physical interaction itself are poorly understood. Using a novel interaction paradigm of two partners interacting through a (virtual) compliant spring connection, we provide evidence of interaction improving the tracking performance of both the better and worse partners. We also demonstrate that interaction with a human leads to faster learning of a visuomotor rotation than when practicing either alone or with robotic guidance.