When subjects view stimulation of a rubber hand while feeling congruent stimulation of their own hand, they may come to feel that the rubber hand is part of their own body. This illusion of body ownership is termed 'Rubber Hand Illusion' (RHI). We investigated sensitivity of RHI to spatial mismatches between visual and somatic experience. We compared the effects of spatial mismatch between the ...

We investigated the specific contribution of efferent information in a self-recognition task. Subjects experienced a passive extension of the right index finger, either as an effect of moving their left hand via a lever ('self-generated action'), or imposed externally by the experimenter ('externally-generated action'). The visual feedback was manipulated so that subjects saw either their own r...

Integration of different modalities aims to increase the robustness of a system and improves its performance in an unconstrained environment. With this motivation, this research is focused on integrating two modalities such as hand gesture and posture in a unified framework where the criterion is measured by employing Particle Filter system. The proposed framework has two main modules: 1) Gestu...

In this paper, a human-robot interaction system based on a novel combination of sensors is proposed. It allows one person to interact with a humanoid social robot using natural body language. The robot understands the meaning of human upper body gestures and expresses itself by using a combination of body movements, facial expressions and verbal language. A set of 12 upper body gestures is invo...

In this chapter, a nonverbal way of communication for human–robot interaction by understanding human upper body gestures will be addressed. The human– robot interaction system based on a novel combination of sensors is proposed. It allows one person to interact with a humanoid social robot with natural body language. The robot can understand the meaning of human upper body gestures and express ...

Recently, gesture recognition is widely used as interface. Popular gestures are mainly arm motion and whole body motion. Although hand shape is a good sign that can express rich information with small motions, few applications are in practical use. That is because the existing methods have several problems; blocks of finger sense and interference with finger motion, restrictions of hand positio...

Human-movement recognition is a novel challenge in soft robotics. In recent years, there have been several attempts to develop wearable devices for supporting human-robot interfaces. Many algorithms and programming languages are available integrate device with robot. One such promising algorithm reservoir computing (RC), which includes of group recurrently randomly connected nodes. The RC model...

Dance-like actions are complex visual stimuli involving multiple changes in body posture across time and space. Visual perception research has demonstrated a difference between the processing of dynamic body movement and the processing of static body posture. Yet, it is unclear whether this processing dissociation continues during the retention of body movement and body form in visual working m...