Physical interactions between patients and therapists during rehabilitation have served as
motivation for the design of rehabilitation robots, yet we lack a fundamental understanding of …

Background Physical interactions between two people are ubiquitous in our daily lives, and
an integral part of many forms of rehabilitation. However, few studies have investigated …

Sharing a drink or passing a tool to another person is frequently done in our daily lives.
However, a second thought is rarely given about how the object should be handed; instead …

When humans collaborate, they often distribute task demands in order to reach a higher
performance compared to performing the same task alone (ie, a collective benefit). Here, we …

When two or more people perform actions together such as shaking hands, playing
ensemble music or carrying an object together, they often naturally adjust the spatial and …

Standstill behavior by a robot is deemed to be ineffective and inefficient to convey a robot's
intention to yield priority to another party in spatial interaction. Instead, robots could convey …

The paper describes the design of a wearable and wireless system that allows the real-time
identification of some gestures performed by basketball players. This system is specifically …

In a typical Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenario, the robot needs to perform various
tasks for the human, hence should take into account human oriented constraints. In this …

This study examined influences of social context on movement parameters in a pick-and-
place task. Participants' motion trajectories were recorded while they performed sequences …

One goal of assistive robotics is to design interactive robots that can help disabled people
with tasks such as fetching objects. When people do this task, they coordinate their …