Polyrhythmic Bimanual Coordination Training using Haptic Force Feedback
This addresses a specific motor learning problem for human subjects, but it is incremental as it builds on existing haptic feedback methods with a small sample size.
The paper tackled training humans to perform a 2:3 polyrhythmic bimanual coordination using haptic force feedback devices, resulting in three subjects increasing their scores after adaptive training sessions of under five minutes.
It is challenging to develop two thoughts at the same time or perform two uncorrelated motions simultaneously. This work looks specifically towards training humans to perform a 2:3 polyrhythmic bimanual ratio using haptic force feedback devices (SensAble Phantom OMNI). We implemented an interactive training session to help participants learn to decouple their hand motions quickly. Three subjects (2 Females, 1 Male) were tested and have successfully increased their scores after adaptive training durations of under five minutes.