Influence of Visual and Haptic Stimuli on Play Skill in a Ball Game

Abstract

We focused on the effect that applying visual and haptic stimuli reduce the task load of situation awareness during a ball game, and we hypothesized that as a result, they also reduce the number of misplays. We developed the system which can provide the visual and haptic stimuli for supporting 3-on-3 soccer game in real-time; for visual stimuli, the position relationship of opponent players are shown, and for haptic stimuli, the position of opponent player who are in the out of view angle. Through the experiment we evaluated whether the visual and haptic stimuli can reduce the task load in a ball game. As a result, the proposed visual or haptic stimuli itself reduced the player's task load and improved the ball handling skill. On the other hand, we found that the combination of visual and haptic stimuli did not reduce the task load of player, and did not contribute to the reduction of misplay.