Title
Effort, Performance, And Motivation: Insights From Robot-Assisted Training Of Human Golf Putting And Rat Grip Strength
Abstract
Robotic devices can modulate success rates and required effort levels during motor training, but it is unclear how this affects performance gains and motivation. Here we present results from training unimpaired humans in a virtual golf-putting task, and training spinal cord injured (SCI) rats in a grip strength task using robotically modulated success rates and effort levels. Robotic assistance in golf practice increased trainees feelings of competence, and, paradoxically, increased their sense effort, even though it had mixed effects on learning. Reducing effort during a grip strength training task led rats with SCI to practice the task more frequently. However, the more frequent practice of these rats did not cause them to exceed the strength gains achieved by rats that exercised less often at higher required effort levels. These results show that increasing success and decreasing effort with robots increases motivation, but has mixed effects on performance gains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650461
2013 IEEE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REHABILITATION ROBOTICS (ICORR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
force,motivation,human factors,sport,robots,testing
Grip strength,Physical therapy,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Engineering,Robot,Feeling
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1945-7898
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaime E Duarte100.34
Berkenesh Gebrekristos200.34
Sergi Perez300.34
Justin B Rowe400.34
Kelli Sharp500.34
David J Reinkensmeyer6257.15