HRI Final Project
5/12/21
Prosthesis
Communicative Tool
Affective Tool
Discriminative Tool
Gesture
Affective Embodiment "Charging"
Task
Watch a clip (from Makin/Huang paper)
They Explain
Embodiment
Accelerometry
Prosthesis
Non-prosthesis
Discriminative Embodiment Charging
I wonder if the types of gestures are different if we do discriminative charging
Gesture is an essential part of our daily communication and how we interact with others in the world
Researchers showed that people who use their prosthesis more, gesture more naturally.
It has also been shown that in "lab manufactured embodiment" people "embody" an external tool more if they receive CT stimulation
Therefore, we propose to give CT stimulation while someone is wearing a prosthesis to have them "embody" it more
We predict that those who get CT stimulation will have embodied it more and therefore gesture more naturally, more similarly to the non-prosthetic condition where they already embody their natural limbs
Person Enters Room
Give them consent papers to sign
Feedback Sleeve Tested and wiped (sanitized?) in some way?
Prosthesis and EMG Turned on and test calibrated
Box and Blocks prepared on one side of table
Instruct them to pull on haptic feedback sleeve
Do EMG calibration
Have them do practice runs
Do the Box and Blocks Task
Take the PEMBS Survey
Group A: Embodiment Charging / haptic feedback
Group B: Embodiment Charging without Haptic Feedback
Group C: No Embodiment Charging at all