Smooth leader or sharp follower? Playing the mirror game with a robot.

Journal: Restorative neurology and neuroscience
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The increasing number of opportunities for human-robot interactions in various settings, from industry through home use to rehabilitation, creates a need to understand how to best personalize human-robot interactions to fit both the user and the task at hand. In the current experiment, we explored a human-robot collaborative task of joint movement, in the context of an interactive game.

Authors

  • Shir Kashi
    Department of Cognitive Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • Shelly Levy-Tzedek
    Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Department of Physical Therapy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.