Background Current robot-aided training allows for high-intensity training but might hamper
the transfer of learned skills to real daily tasks. Many of these tasks, eg, carrying a cup of …

Moving a slider to set the music volume or control the air conditioning is a familiar task that
requires little attention. However, adjusting a virtual slider on a featureless touchscreen is …

Humans can learn to manipulate objects with complex dynamics, including nonrigid objects
with internal degrees of freedom. The first aim of this study was to assess the contribution of …

Recent human-machine interaction studies have suggested that movement augmented with
negative viscosity can enhance performance and can even promote better motor learning …

While mainstream haptics has been focusing on training elite skills, the haptic simulator
described in this paper addresses a problem with a phenomenal social impact that …

Purpose Offering unskilled people training in engineering and vocational skills helps to
decrease unemployment rate. The purpose of this paper is to augment actual hands-on …

In daily life, we often encounter situations in which we have to coordinate our actions with
others to achieve a common goal. These actions are also defined as joint actions. In this …

Brain injury often results a partial loss of the neural resources communicating to the
periphery that controls movements. Consequently the signals that were employed prior to …

Humans have the ability to learn novel motor tasks while manipulating the environment.
Several models of motor learning have been proposed in the literature, but few of them …

In the manual ball-and-beam task, participants have to control a ball that is rolling
continuously on a long and hand-held beam. Since the task can be performed individually …