Biomedical Robotics Lab. Sensorimotor control, perception, adaptation, skill acquisition, surgical robotics, haptics, teleoperation.
Joined December 2017
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Nisky Lab retweeted
27 Dec 2024
A new Review on artificial touch systems stresses aligning feedback with the brain's learning and adaptation processes to design interfaces that are intuitive, flexible, and better suited to human needs, allowing users to feel and act more naturally. scim.ag/4gFrE01
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6/8 To ensure the relevant information is well received by the user, engineers rely on above-threshold perception. Yet, much of natural haptics is implicit. If we constantly bombard the system with above-perceptual-threshold haptic information, we risk overwhelming the user
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7/8 These gaps between biomimicry and current technology put the load on the user’s cognition, who ultimately needs to learn to infer the intended information from the interface, while ignoring irrelevant features... So, how can we put the technology back in the background?
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8/8 Read our review for some ideas! Ultimately, physiological compatibility (biomimicry) is too far from current technological reality. Also, it limits design and functionality to what is biologically familiar. Instead, we advocate for behavioural and cognitive compatibility.
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5/8 Limited bandwidth gets worst during delivery of feature-specific and context-invariant artificial input to the user. Whereas the somatosensory system is dynamically attuned to context, like movement planning, stimulus repetition and learning, making it highly non-linear.
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2/8 Artificial haptic technologies have the potential to empower users with new ways to perceive and engage with their surroundings. Yet, they are also slow to reach their target users and cross the chasm from the lab to real life. Why is that? We have some thoughts.
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3/8 To begin with, the strive for biomimicry––attempting to mimic the peripheral input so that the CNS integrates the artificial input to the natural system––requires haptic feedback systems to capture relevant environmental data, via sensors and filters. But what is ‘relevant’?
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Proud to share a new review (more like a long perspective), just out in Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… . Ilana Nisky @NiskyLab Makin @plasticity_lab and I joined heads (brains) to reimagine how to make the most out of artificial haptic interfaces. A thread (1/8)
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1/🚀 Excited to share our new research! 🎉
This study, led by the talented Hanna Kossowsky Lev, explores the fascinating interplay between perception and action in haptics.
🔗 Read more: eneuro.org/content/early/202…
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4/ The dataset & code are available on GitHub:
🔗 github.com/Bio-Medical-Robot…
This is a step toward understanding the complex relationship between sensory feedback and motor control. I'd love to hear your thoughts or ideas for applications!
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5/ Huge thanks to Dr. @FarajianMor for providing data and Dr. @TalGolanNeuro for insightful discussions.
#BiomedicalRobotics #PerceptionAndAction #Haptics #HumanMotorControl #SkinStretch
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One of the upper marks is us at the bombshelter after deciding to take the girls to see grandparents after 2 months...
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Some scientific news - the paper of @FarajianMor on Direction-Specific Effects of Artificial Skin-Stretch on Stiffness Perception and Grip Force Control is now accepted for publication - it is the last paper of her impressive PhD work in collaboration with @RazWazziLeib
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Artificial skin-stretch augmented the perceived stiffness; but the augmentation by the negative stretch was lower than by the positive stretch, and for some participants, it was opposite. A model of the preferred directions of the mechanoreceptors explains these results.
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