GeniePutt: Augmenting human motor skills through electrical muscle stimulation
Sarah Faltaous, Aya Abdulmaksoud, Markus Kempe, Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegaß
Abstract
Abstract Motor skills are omnipresent in our daily lives. Humans seek to learn new skills or improve existing ones. In this work, we explore how the actuation of the human body can be used to augment motor skills. We present GeniePutt, which augments the human performance via electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). We conducted a user study in which we controlled the turning angle of the wrist through GeniePutt to increase participants’ accuracy in a mini-golf scenario. Our results indicate that the best accuracy can be achieved when human capabilities are combined with augmentation performed through EMS.
Topics & Concepts
Motor skillElectrical muscle stimulationWork (physics)StimulationPhysical medicine and rehabilitationHuman muscleHuman–computer interactionComputer sciencePsychologyFunctional electrical stimulationMedicineEngineeringNeuroscienceMechanical engineeringSkeletal muscleEndocrinologyMotor Control and AdaptationTactile and Sensory InteractionsMuscle activation and electromyography studies