Towards Effective Sensorimotor Skill Transfer: Initial Comparison between Haptic Guidance and Disturbance on VR Engraving Arts

This paper compares force-feedback methods for sensorimotor skill transfer in a VR engraving art task. Using a 3-DoF force-feedback device, we implemented a VR engraving art system that provides two different haptic feedback methods of haptic guidance and disturbance. As haptic guidance, the force and profile we gathered from an art expert were presented as is, while the inverse direction of the profile was given as haptic disturbance. We evaluated the user’s task performance with two methods with a baseline of no haptic feedback and the results showed haptic disturbance led to slightly better performance than guidance.