Medical assistance systems

Since February 2022, the Bielefeld and Bremen scientists have been researching whether the EEG currents in the human brain change significantly when distractions and hesitations occur in a human-robot interaction. From this, conclusions should be drawn about memory and learning effects in people.

Combining a social robot and a high-density EEG setup within the same experiment poses a significant challenge for the proposed research project. Both components are expensive and require extensive expertise to be properly operated. Performing such an experiment often requires two or more groups to combine their unique technical equipment and their respective expertise. However, collaborations like this are difficult to realize because it is often not feasible to move delicate and unique equipment between two spatially distributed labs or to keep important items from one lab at a different location for an extended period of time. To overcome this issue, we employ the LabLinking paradigm for our experiment.