Evaluation by Expert Dancers of a Robot That Performs Partnered Stepping via Haptic Interaction.

Our long-term goal is to enable a robot to engage in partner dance for use in rehabilitation therapy, assessment, diagnosis, and scientific investigations of two-person whole-body motor coordination. Partner dance has been shown to improve balance and gait in people with Parkinson's disease and...

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Main Authors: Tiffany L Chen, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, J Lucas McKay, Jacquelyn E Borinski, Madeleine E Hackney, Lena H Ting, Charles C Kemp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4438977?pdf=render