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A Comparative Study of Touch Feedback in Coaching Scenarios : Haptic Vest vs. Embodied Social Robot in Squatting Exercises
Moiș, Ionuț Bogdan (2024) A Comparative Study of Touch Feedback in Coaching Scenarios : Haptic Vest vs. Embodied Social Robot in Squatting Exercises.
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| Abstract: | Regular exercise has numerous benefits for an individual, both physical and psychological. Therefore it is important to learn how to correctly execute physical exercise to make use of its benefits and avoid injury. Trainees can improve their execution of physical exercises based on feedback received from a coach. There have been studies on different feedback strategies to test their effectiveness on learning motor tasks. Most studies focus on re- habilitation and there is a need for more studies on the effectiveness of different feedback mechanisms in physical exercises for healthy individ- uals. This study focused on comparing the effectiveness of two feedback approaches on squatting exercises for healthy subjects: touch feedback from a haptic vest vs. a social robot coach. No significant differences were found in the effectiveness of improving the squatting technique between the two settings, however there are some marginal differences in the number of squats, participants’ confidence and perceived system agency. Both feedback modalities were appreciated and show the importance of further analyzing haptic feedback between humans and robots. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Computer Science BSc (56964) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100988 |
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