MOTOR SKILL LEARNING WITH FORCE FEEDBACK IN MIXED REALITY

An experimental study of interactions in real and mixed reality learning and control environments will be described. The experiments aim at more insight into the difference between three interaction modes in handling automation systems: interaction with real components, mixed real-virtual handling with visual feedback only and with visual and force feedback. A simple, low cost, and internet based force feedback device will be presented, being a further implementation of the Hyper-Bonds concept, a unified concept to describe complex effort/flow driven automation systems distributed over real and virtual worlds. This work is a step towards a modular mixed reality construction kit allowing design and implementation of automation systems based on an arbitrary distribution of real and virtual components. Copyright © 2004 IFAC