Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control
Sense of agency (SoA) refers to an individual’s awareness of their own actions. SoA studies seek to find objective indicators for the feeling of agency. These indicators, being related to the feeling of control, have practical application in vehicle design. However, they have not been investigated f...
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| author | Artem S. Yashin Darisy G. Zhao Anastasiya N. Stolyarova Anton D. Moscowsky Dmitry S. Yakovlev Ivan A. Nazhestkin Sergei L. Shishkin Ignat A. Dubynin |
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| description | Sense of agency (SoA) refers to an individual’s awareness of their own actions. SoA studies seek to find objective indicators for the feeling of agency. These indicators, being related to the feeling of control, have practical application in vehicle design. However, they have not been investigated for actions related to the agent’s body movement inherent to steering a vehicle. In our study, participants operated a robotic wheelchair under three conditions: active control by a participant, direct control by the experimenter and remote control by the experimenter. In each trial, a participant drove the wheelchair until a sound signal occurred, after which they stopped the wheelchair and estimated the travelled distance. The subjective estimates were significantly greater when participants operated the wheelchair by themselves. This result contrasts with observations under static settings in previous studies. In an additional study on the electroencephalographic response to a sound presented at a random time after movement onset, the observed latencies in the N1 component implied that participants might have a higher sense of control when they drove the wheelchair. The proposed methodology might become useful to indirectly assess the degree of operator control of a vehicle, primarily in the field of rehabilitation technologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f5dc74407fd4f9ca48c0a075280d0152023-11-23T15:29:47ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172022-06-011212621710.3390/app12126217Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair ControlArtem S. Yashin0Darisy G. Zhao1Anastasiya N. Stolyarova2Anton D. Moscowsky3Dmitry S. Yakovlev4Ivan A. Nazhestkin5Sergei L. Shishkin6Ignat A. Dubynin7Laboratory for Neurocognitive Technology, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, 123098 Moscow, RussiaLaboratory for Neurocognitive Technology, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, 123098 Moscow, RussiaLaboratory for Neurocognitive Technology, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, 123098 Moscow, RussiaLaboratory for Robotics, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, 123098 Moscow, RussiaRussian Quantum Center, 121205 Moscow, RussiaRussian Quantum Center, 121205 Moscow, RussiaMEG Center, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, 123290 Moscow, RussiaMEG Center, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, 123290 Moscow, RussiaSense of agency (SoA) refers to an individual’s awareness of their own actions. SoA studies seek to find objective indicators for the feeling of agency. These indicators, being related to the feeling of control, have practical application in vehicle design. However, they have not been investigated for actions related to the agent’s body movement inherent to steering a vehicle. In our study, participants operated a robotic wheelchair under three conditions: active control by a participant, direct control by the experimenter and remote control by the experimenter. In each trial, a participant drove the wheelchair until a sound signal occurred, after which they stopped the wheelchair and estimated the travelled distance. The subjective estimates were significantly greater when participants operated the wheelchair by themselves. This result contrasts with observations under static settings in previous studies. In an additional study on the electroencephalographic response to a sound presented at a random time after movement onset, the observed latencies in the N1 component implied that participants might have a higher sense of control when they drove the wheelchair. The proposed methodology might become useful to indirectly assess the degree of operator control of a vehicle, primarily in the field of rehabilitation technologies.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6217robotic wheelchairsense of agencyagencysense of controlintentional bindingspatial intentional binding |
| spellingShingle | Artem S. Yashin Darisy G. Zhao Anastasiya N. Stolyarova Anton D. Moscowsky Dmitry S. Yakovlev Ivan A. Nazhestkin Sergei L. Shishkin Ignat A. Dubynin Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control Applied Sciences robotic wheelchair sense of agency agency sense of control intentional binding spatial intentional binding |
| title | Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control |
| title_full | Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control |
| title_fullStr | Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control |
| title_short | Subjective Distance Estimates and Sense of Agency in Robotic Wheelchair Control |
| title_sort | subjective distance estimates and sense of agency in robotic wheelchair control |
| topic | robotic wheelchair sense of agency agency sense of control intentional binding spatial intentional binding |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6217 |
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