Sunday, March 30, 2008

Lieberman - TIKL

Lieberman, Jeff and Cynthia Breazeal. "TIKL: Development of a wearable vibrotactile feedback suit for improved human motor learning."

Summary



1) Teacher puts on this suit with VICON sensors and build in vibrating doo-has.
2) Teacher does a gesture and it is trained.
3) Give suit to student, adjust it etc.
4) Student does gesture, and suit vibrates to correct errors (difference in joint angles between teacher and student, multiplied by coefficient for amount of feedback). Can do cues to rotate and bend, etc.


Blah blah, graphs. Overall error is reduced and training time is reduced using suit compared to one without suit.

Discussion



Admitted flaws: cost of VICON and bulkiness/hassle of the half-body suit. The idea here is //REALLY// neat, using vibration feedback to correct gestures. Just not into it because there aren't any algorithms a machine learning person like me is into.

1 comment:

Grandmaster Mash said...

This system would work great with the "Glove of Love"...