Investigating Augmented Reality for Adaptive Motor-Skill Training

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Adaptive training of motor-skills, where the difficulty level of the training task is adapted optimally based on the learner’s skill levels, has been shown to enable higher learning gains compared to non-adaptive training. However, prior approaches rely on adapting physical tools that are tedious to design and build. This work investigates using augmented reality (AR) to achieve a similar objective of maintaining functional task difficulty – the difficulty experienced by the learner – at an optimal challenge point during adaptive training. A study prototype of an AR adaptive basketball training system was developed, wherein the learners train to throw a physical ball into a virtual AR hoop seen through a head-mounted device. Results from the study (N=16) aimed to measure the learning gains showed higher learning gains after adaptive AR training compared to non-adaptive AR training. An analysis of participant feedback, however, highlighted challenges with AR-based adaptive training, pointing to the need for a different design approach compared to the physical adaptive tools. Collectively, this exploratory study investigates the use of AR for adaptive motor-skill learning and lays the foundation for future research directions for the AR-tool design.

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