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Effects of color cues on eye-hand coordination training with a mirror drawing task in virtual environment.

ABSTRACT: Mirror drawing is a motor learning task that is used to evaluate and improve eye-hand coordination of users and can be implemented in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) for training purposes. In this paper, we investigated the effect of color cues on user motor performance in a mirror-drawing task between Virtual Environment (VE) and Real World (RW), with three different colors. We conducted a 5-day user study with twelve participants. The results showed that the participants made fewer errors in RW compared to VR, except for pre-training, which indicated that hardware and software limitations have detrimental effects on the motor learning of the participants across different realities. Furthermore, participants made fewer errors with the colors close to green, which is usually associated with serenity, contentment, and relaxation. According to our findings, VR headsets can be used to evaluate participants' eye-hand coordination in mirror drawing tasks to evaluate the motor-learning of participants. VE and RW training applications could benefit from our findings in order to enhance their effectiveness.

SUBMITTER: Alrubaye Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10823539 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effects of color cues on eye-hand coordination training with a mirror drawing task in virtual environment.

Alrubaye Zainab Z Hudhud Mughrabi Moaaz M Manav Banu B Batmaz Anil Ufuk AU

Frontiers in psychology 20240115

Mirror drawing is a motor learning task that is used to evaluate and improve eye-hand coordination of users and can be implemented in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) for training purposes. In this paper, we investigated the effect of color cues on user motor performance in a mirror-drawing task between Virtual Environment (VE) and Real World (RW), with three different colors. We conducted a 5-day user study with twelve participants. The results showed that the partici ...[more]

PMID: 38288362

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Effects of color cues on eye-hand coordination training with a mirror drawing task in virtual environment.

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Effects of color cues on eye-hand coordination training with a mirror drawing task in virtual environment.

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