Interaction in Assistive Robotics: A Radical Constructivist Design Framework

Despite decades of research, muscle-based control assistive devices (myocontrol) is still unreliable; for instance upper-limb prostheses, each year more and dexterous human-like, provide hardly enough functionality to justify their cost the effort required use them. In order try close this gap, we propose shift goal myocontrol from guessing intended movements creating new circular reactions in constructivist sense defined by Piaget. To aim, system must be able acquire knowledge forget past one, acquisition/forgetting happen on demand , requested either user or itself. We a unifying framework based upon Radical Constructivism design such system, including its interface user-device interaction strategy.