This activity includes a set of experiments that use auditory feedback to augment assisted motor training exercises. In this context, the term auditory feedback denotes an audio signal, automatically generated and played back to the user in response to an action or an internal state of the system. The design of auditory feedback requires a set of sensors to capture the system state, a feedback function to map sensor signals into acoustic parameters, and a rendering engine to generate audio accordingly. We hypothesize here that properly designed auditory feedback could be used to aid user motivation in performing task-oriented motor exercises; to represent temporal and spatial information that can improve the motor learning process; to substitute other feedback modalities in case of their absence.
  This research is a joint collaboration between University of Padua (Dr. G. Rosati and Dr. F. Avanzini), University of California at Irvine (Dr. D. J. Reinkensmeyer) and University of Delaware (Dr. S. K. Agrawal).