Motor Learning based on Presentation of a Tentative Goal

This paper presents a motor learning method based on the presenting of a personalized target motion, which we call a tentative goal. While many prior studies have focused on helping users correct their motor skill motions, most of them present the reference motion to users regardless of whether the motion is attainable or not. This makes it difficult for users to appropriately modify their motion to the reference motion when the difference between their motion and the reference motion is too significant. This study aims to provide a tentative goal that maximizes performance within a certain amount of motion change. To achieve this, predicting the performance of any motion is necessary. However, it is challenging to estimate the performance of a tentative goal by building a general model because of the large variety of human motion. Therefore, we built an individual model that predicts performance from a small training dataset and implemented it using our proposed data augmentation method. Experiments with basketball free-throw data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.