title: Redirected Touching: Training and Adaptation in Warped Virtual Spaces.
abstract: Redirected Touchingis a technique in which virtual space is warped to map many virtual objects onto one real object that serves as a passive haptic prop. Recent work suggests that this mapping can often be predictably unnoticeable and have little effect on task performance. We investigated training and adaptation on a rapid aiming task in a real environment, an unwarped virtual environment, and a warped virtual environment. Participants who experienced a warped virtual space reported an initial strange sensation, but adapted to the warped space after short repeated exposure. Our data indicate that all the virtual training was less effective than real-world training, but after adaptation, participants trained as well in a warped virtual space as in an unwarped one.
authors.forename: Luv
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kohli
authors.forename: Mary C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Whitton
authors.forename: Frederick P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Brooks
keywords: Fitts’ law; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]; H.5.2 [User Interfaces]; Haptic I/O; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]; ISO 9241–9; Multimedia Information Systems-Artificial; Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Virtual reality; Virtual reality; augmented; haptics; perception; pointing; redirected touching; virtual realities