To develop effective and user-friendly robotic devices that provide human-like balance support, understanding the simultaneous occurrence of entrainment and sway reduction in human-human interaction is crucial. However, previous research has shown that touching a continuously moving external non-human reference rather increases body sway instead of reducing it. To better understand aspects that reduce body sway during interpersonal entrainment, in our recently published paper we investigated how different simulated sway-responsive interaction partners with different coupling modes affect sway entrainment, reduction, and interpersonal coordination, and how these behaviors differ depending on individual body schema accuracy.
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