Development of a Virtual System to Analyze the Learning of 3D Shapes

Abstract

This study focuses on the development of a Virtual Environment application that interacts with a haptic device, to analyze the human process of learning 3 D shapes. The levels a person goes through in this learning process are established based on the Model of Hierarchical Complexity, translated into questions, and tested with a sample of users. The obtained results validate and demonstrate an increase in hierarchical complexity along the questions/stages and validate the Model, with most users following the concept that for a person to accomplish a higher hierarchical task, must be able to accomplish all the lower ones.

Keywords:

• Haptic
• learning
• Model of Hierarchical Complexity
• object recognition

Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge the support from LAETA.

Notes

1 Sensable^® is now part of the company 3D Systems^®, which now has similar equipment to the Omni device used on this study, but with a little hardware change on the type of communication with the computer.

Additional information

Funding

This research was funded by Projects LAETA [UIDB/50022/2020 and UIDP/50022/2020].