Exploration of affordances of visuo-haptic simulations to learn the concept of friction

Visuohaptic experiments: Exploring the effects of visual and haptic feedback on students’ learning of friction concepts

“…Previous literature which studied students’ learning with embodied learning experiences demonstrated a positive effect on conceptual learning . Even though the argument about adding haptic feedback to visual manipulation is not better than having visual manipulation alone , the results from previous studies conducted by our research team showed that haptic feedback has great potential to improve student learning of force‐related concepts . Therefore, with this study we wanted to identify ways to maximize the effects of haptic feedback as a learning medium following a sequenced approach.…”

“…Although previous research has reported the value added of presenting information in multiple modalities (e.g., Jones and Magana , Magana et al , Neri, et al , Zacharia , Zacharia and Constantinou ), there is an opening for future work to determine the optimal ways to integrate VH simulation into the curriculum . Similarly, there is also a need to identify the best combination of both modalities (V → V + H and H → V + H) . However, a great number of studies have mainly focused on two questions: (a) does the use of virtual representations help improve students’ conceptual understanding?…”

“…The questions were prepared and revised by experts in the field of engineering and physics education. The questions were piloted in a previous study using a physical manipulative tool to design a VH simulation to teach friction . We calculated the Cronbach's α to evaluate the internal consistency of the questions regarding the role of the friction force and the role of the object size.…”

“…Moreover, appropriately representing interaction forces due to contact or friction (and their directionality) is another common challenge for students . Students commonly represent the friction force as always being equal to the weight of the object multiplied by the coefficient of friction of the surface, regardless of the state of sticking or slipping . That is, students often believe that they can calculate the magnitude of the horizontal force via multiplying weight with the corresponding coefficient friction, even if the horizontal force applied to the object may not be enough to move the object.…”

Systematic Review of Multimodal Human–Computer Interaction

“…They use haptic gloves on a multitactile screen report that the rendering experiments for dynamic objects revealed a problem known as "object stiction", which is exclusive to multi-touch haptic systems and is caused by the non-directional nature of electrostatic stimulation that appears when an object is pinched and dragged at the same time. Visuo-haptics simulation of friction has been studied by Yuksel et al [61]; Yuksel et al [62] and by Neri et al [63]. Visual and visuo-haptic simulations were compared to physical simulation, and the learning gain was considered.…”