Neural correlates of human-robot handshaking

Author

Vanello, Nicola ; Bonino, Daniela ; Ricciardi, Emiliano ; Tesconi, Mario ; Scilingo, Enzo P. ; Hartwig, Valentina ; Tognetti, Alessandro ; Zupone, Giuseppe ; Cutolo, Fabrizio ; Giovannetti, Giulio ; Pietrini, Pietro ; De Rossi, Danilo ; Landini, Luigi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

561

Abstract

Handshaking represents a complex motor and cognitive task that poses several challenges from both engineering and neuroscientific viewpoints. In particular, it is an intriguing application which can be profitably studied in the field of Human Robot Interaction (HRI). In this work an experimental paradigm is proposed to investigate the neural correlates of handshaking between humans and between humans and robots using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. More specifically the role of visual and haptic components during handshaking interaction will be studied. A wearable sensing glove will be used to monitor hand finger position and movement. Preliminary results will be reported and discussed.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; data gloves; haptic interfaces; human-robot interaction; neural nets; sensors; functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; haptic components; human robot interaction; human-robot handshaking; neural correlates; wearable sensing glove; Fingers; Humans; Robot sensing systems; Timing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RO-MAN, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Viareggio

ISSN

1944-9445

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7991-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598624

Filename

5598624