Imperial College London
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ProfessorEtienneBurdet

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Professor of Human Robotics
 
 
 
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419BSir Michael Uren HubWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Takagi:2018:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005971,
author = {Takagi, A and Usai, F and Ganesh, G and Sanguineti, V and Burdet, E},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005971},
journal = {PLoS Computational Biology},
title = {Haptic communication between humans is tuned by the hard or soft mechanics of interaction},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005971},
volume = {14},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - To move a hard table together, humans may coordinate by following the dominant partner's motion [1-4], but this strategy is unsuitable for a soft mattress where the perceived forces are small. How do partners readily coordinate in such differing interaction dynamics? To address this, we investigated how pairs tracked a target using flexion-extension of their wrists, which were coupled by a hard, medium or soft virtual elastic band. Tracking performance monotonically increased with a stiffer band for the worse partner, who had higher tracking error, at the cost of the skilled partner's muscular effort. This suggests that the worse partner followed the skilled one's lead, but simulations show that the results are better explained by a model where partners share movement goals through the forces, whilst the coupling dynamics determine the capacity of communicable information. This model elucidates the versatile mechanism by which humans can coordinate during both hard and soft physical interactions to ensure maximum performance with minimal effort.
AU  - Takagi,A
AU  - Usai,F
AU  - Ganesh,G
AU  - Sanguineti,V
AU  - Burdet,E
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005971
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1553-734X
TI  - Haptic communication between humans is tuned by the hard or soft mechanics of interaction
T2  - PLoS Computational Biology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005971
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29565966
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/58286
VL  - 14
ER  -
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