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Impact of PGM Training on Reaction Time and Sense of Agency

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Sense of Agency (SoA) is the mechanism responsible for the feeling of control own actions. Given the nature of Sense of Agency, changes and disorders can occur to the detriment of individual health with disabling consequences. Pneumatic Gel Muscles (PGMs) are a type of soft actuator that, due to their design and construction, can operate with low pressures, removing the necessity of heavy compressors to actuate them, which makes PGMs ideal for wearable purposes. PGMs have proved to be helpful in imparting dexterity training tasks, and also, the soft properties of PGM allow a more natural and less restricted training. This paper presents the design, implementation, and testing of a training system based on Pneumatic Gel Muscles to speed up the user’s Reaction Time in a Simple Reaction Time (RT) task, using a LED as a visual stimulus. Four different modes of PGM feedback training were tested for two participant groups that followed different training sequences. Fast PGM training was the training type that demonstrated the best improvement (defining improving as a speeding up in the RT measurement value), with an improvement of 20.6 ms for Group 1 and an overall improvement of 8.16 ms for all the data, which is very similar to improvement times achieved using other feedback type training.

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    Enrique Calderon-Sastre, Swagata Das & Yuichi Kurita

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Calderon-Sastre, E., Das, S., Kurita, Y. (2022). Impact of PGM Training on Reaction Time and Sense of Agency. In: Berretti, S., Su, GM. (eds) Smart Multimedia. ICSM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22061-6_26

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