Haptic cooperation between people, and between people and machines

Haptic interaction between people and machines might benefit from an understanding of haptic communication between one person and another. We recently reported results showing that two people performing a physically shared dyadic task can outperform either person alone, even when the perception of e...

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Main Authors: Reed, K.B., Peshkin, M., Hartmann, M.J., Patton, J., Vishton, P.M., Grabowecky, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical engineering
Force feedback
Haptic interfaces
Humans
Intelligent robots
Intelligent systems
Laboratories
Machine intelligence
Mechanical systems
Psychology
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Summary:Haptic interaction between people and machines might benefit from an understanding of haptic communication between one person and another. We recently reported results showing that two people performing a physically shared dyadic task can outperform either person alone, even when the perception of each participant is that the other is a hindrance. Evidently a dyad quickly negotiates a more efficient motion strategy than is available to individuals. This negotiation must take place through a haptic channel of communication, and it is apparently at a level below the awareness of the participants. Here we report results on the motion strategy that emerged. By recording forces and motions we show that the dyads "specialized" temporally such that one member took on early parts of the motion and the other late parts. Tests in which one participant's contribution was surreptitiously replaced by a motor did not elicit a similar cooperative response from the remaining human participant, showing that the language of haptic communication between people must be rather subtle
ISSN:2153-0858
2153-0866
DOI:10.1109/IROS.2006.282489