Why does iconic gesture recognition in human-robot interaction (HRI) degrade significantly when a robot's joint flexibility is limited?

💡 Explanation

Iconic gestures rely on mimetic mapping to visually represent concepts. Because limited joint flexibility reduces the robot's ability to proportionally represent actions or shapes, the iconicity is compromised, therefore recognition degrades, rather than because of computational load or beat/indexical gesture limitations.

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