This paper presents a motor-skill-download system to help beginners learn the basic piano playing techniques such as staccato and legato. This system uses electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to induce involuntary movement of the user's muscles so that a ...

Healthy children’s gait support patterns play a critical role in their development and overall well-being. Therefore, in order to develop a correct gait, it is necessary to constantly update knowledge.

This article introduces "Baby Robot", a robot designed to improve infants' and toddlers' motor skills. This robot is a car-like toy that moves autonomously by using reinforcement learning and computer vision. Its behaviour consists of escaping from a ...

Nowadays, many wearable devices such as smartwatches exist that can be used to track and analyze sports activities. Generally, these devices are equipped with high-resolution screens, but most applications provide only textual status information as real-...

Traditional therapy methods for people with cognitive disabilities involve long periods of time performing exercises that can be tedious or unattractive for both patients and the professionals who work with them in specialized centers. In this work we ...

Robot learning problems are limited by physical constraints, which make learning successful policies for complex motor skills on real systems unfeasible. Some reinforcement learning methods, like Policy Search, offer stable convergence toward locally ...

This paper discusses work aimed to advance understanding of haptic nonverbal communication (HNVC) and to build environments that take advantage of wearable technologies and simple tactile languages to extend the reach of HNVC and support learning of ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder and the second most common age-related neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. The primary symptoms of the disease are associated with the loss of motor skills affecting ...

In order to improve the performance of motor skills evaluation decision-making, data support is provided for the system through motor skills association data mining, optimum design of motor skills evaluation decision-making support system is carried out,...

Learning new motor skills is a problem that people are constantly confronted with (e.g. to learn a new kind of sport). In our work, we investigate to which extent the learning process of a motor sequence can be optimized with the help of Augmented ...

Apraxia is one of the cognitive defects that characterizes Alzheimer's disease. Despite its prevalence and importance for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD), this has devoted little attention among research community. Apraxia was more common in the ...

Modelling physical activity is a recent research topic in the field of user modelling. In our research, we aim to model complex activities such as those required to master the practice of a martial art. In particular, in this paper we present the system ...

This article proposes the construction and control of a robotic hand operated by an electronic glove. The glove includes resistive sensors to capture the deflection of the fingers to be replicated. The data obtained by the glove is processed by a ...

Today, ambitioned amateur athletes often do not have access to professional coaching but still invest great effort in becoming faster runners. Apart from a pure increase in the quantitative training load, a change of the running technique, e.g. ...

Wearable sports technology such as fitness trackers, smart watches or heart rate sensors has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. This technology enables even recreational athletes to keep track of their workouts in a comprehensive manner. Besides ...

Psychomotor learning is crucial for many kind of tasks that involve the acquisition of motor skills, such as practicing martial arts. In the past two decades, diverse technological solutions have been developed to support the learning of the ...

This paper presents current approaches and open issues regarding the modeling of users' physical activity when learning motor skills, such as those required to dance, play a musical instrument, practice sports or train in martial arts. On the one hand, ...

In running, knee-related injuries are very common. The main cause are high impact forces when striking the ground with the heel first. Mid- or forefoot running is generally known to reduce impact loads and to be a more efficient running style. In this ...

Balancing is one of the essential motor skills to adopt and maintain an active lifestyle in child- and adulthood. Visual perception plays an important role in learning balancing skills. Current balancing exercises, however, offer few opportunities for ...

In the context of sports, coaches often have difficulty verbally explaining their advice about motor skills because they are tacit knowledge. To verbalize motor skills, coaches must understand "which part in the body" and "how" athletes must move their ...