Transferring motor skills through tactile communication technology

Abstract

This research proposes a learning environment to support transferring motor skills from human to human mediated by haptic wearable technology. The general setting consists of a single human expert and several learners, all communicated through technology, helping both expert and learners. The learners benefit from the feedback provided via wearable technology of a given movement. Similarly, the expert benefits from the statistics provided by the technology, and from an automated mean to provide instructions to the learner. Current status of the research comprises a functional tactile communication setting between instructors and learners, in which the learners can identify, through touch, the motion expected from them. The current research focuses on the implementation of specific instance of the environment for couple dancing. The ultimate goal is to advance understanding of the interaction between humans mediated by technology to learn motor activities.