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Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Exploring Novel Behaviors via Coordination Dynamics
| Title: | Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Exploring Novel Behaviors via Coordination Dynamics. |
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| Name(s): |
Kelso, J. A. Scott, author de Guzman, Gonzalo C., author Reveley, Colin, author Tognoli, Emmanuelle, author Sporns, Olaf, editor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 2009-06-03 | |
| Summary: | Inspired by the dynamic clamp of cellular neuroscience, this paper introduces VPI—Virtual Partner Interaction—a coupled dynamical system for studying real time interaction between a human and a machine. In this proof of concept study, human subjects coordinate hand movements with a virtual partner, an avatar of a hand whose movements are driven by a computerized version of the Haken-Kelso-Bunz (HKB) equations that have been shown to govern basic forms of human coordination. As a surrogate system for human social coordination, VPI allows one to examine regions of the parameter space not typically explored during live interactions. A number of novel behaviors never previously observed are uncovered and accounted for. Having its basis in an empirically derived theory of human coordination, VPI offers a principled approach to human-machine interaction and opens up new ways to understand how humans interact with human-like machines including identification of underlying neural mechanisms. | |
| Identifier: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005749 (doi), http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005749 (uri), FAUIR000087 (IID) | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000087 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | publisher | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part Of: |
PLoS ONE. 1932-6203 |
