Effect of Active and Passive Haptic Sensory Information on Memory for 2D Sequential Selection Task

This paper introduces an education system for typical assembly procedures that provides various haptic sensory information including active and passive haptic feedbacks. Using the system, we implemented four kinds of training methods and experimentally evaluated their performances in terms of short-term and long-term memory over the task. In results, active haptic guidance showed beneficial effects on the short-term memory. In contrast, passive guidance showed the worst performance and even degraded the efficiency of short-term memory. No training methods resulted in noticeable improvements for the long-term memory performance.