The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of virtual reality training on real life hand-eye coordination. A pre-post design was used with a virtual reality intervention training to account for individual differences. To assess the hand-eye coordination, a game of water/beer pong was utilized. Between the two tests, participants either underwent a real-life training or a virtual reality training. This study hypothesized two assumptions: one that the post scores will be significantly higher for both training groups and two, that the scores of the real-life training group will improve significantly more than the scores of the virtual reality training group. A paired sample t-test was used to determine the improvement between pre- and post-scores and an independent sample t-test was used to compare improvement between the two groups. A significant improvement was found between the pre and post scores for both groups therefore validating hypothesis one. When comparing the improvement of the two groups, no significant result could be found. As a result, we can conclude that there is transfer possible from a virtual reality world to real life, but we suspect that when learning more complex movements, this will change. Future studies should include a more difficult learning movement while obtaining a longer training time to get more specific results.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING ON REAL LIFE HAND-EYE COORDINATION: Comparing VR training to real life training
Van Wouwe, I. ((PhD) Student), Broigniez, J. ((PhD) Student), Cools, W. (Promotor). 2024
Student thesis: Master's Thesis