Description and explanation of multi-sensory feedback
A multiple-sensory feedback is to use various input channel senses in order to receive a response of the system to the user's actions. These channels can be hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell and they can be used together interacting with each other or individually. It is used to show the user the results of the actions done by him/her in the system to check what the system is doing.
Multi-sensory feedback can be used, on one hand, to decrease the possibility of occurrence of human mistakes and, in the other hand, as an aid to improve the human abilities such as in medical and educational areas because the interaction of different sensory modalities can powerfully interact to improve the perception.
There are many examples about good uses of multi-sensory feedback. A good one can be how a pilot can improve the way of capturing the attention of unexpected changes without affecting his performance while piloting. If the sight was the only sense to highlight important system status or unexpected changes, the pilot would lose concentration. Instead, if the wide range of sensory modalities available to human beings such as hearing, sight and touch were used, an effective multi-sensory feedback would be provided to the pilots’ attention “without affecting their performance on concurrent tasks”.
Another example of multi-sensory interface can be “reactable” an interface for producing music. Its functionality is based on moving and rotating physical objects in a luminous table which draws different shapes and plays different tones according to the movements of these physical objects. The feedback received by the user is both the light and the music produced by the movements, that is, touch, hearing and sight are used in this interface.In the next video can be appreciated the basics of that user interface, how it works and the feedback it produces.
Picture 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E&feature=player_embedded[25 October 2006]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4&feature=related
In education as well multi-sensory feedback can be used to increase students’ abilities and skills. There are teaching sessions called “Orton-Gillingham” which involves constant interaction between the teacher and the student and the simultaneous use of multiple sensory input channels”. With this interaction and the use of multiple input channels (hearing, sight, touch and kinaesthetic senses) not only an optimal learning is achieved, but enhances memory storage.
Multi-sensory feedback is the message sent to this sensory that can be used in different ways. Various methods are used so users have a better understanding of the message.
One of the uses of Multi-sensory feedback is for the teaching of handwriting skills to students which provides visual and aural signals during a writing exercise. Visually the accuracy is recorded on the student’s efforts in writing and traced letters which are reproduced are closely monitored, this is beneficial for student as they cannot record this if they did it themselves. By the use of this sensory immediate confirmation is given on how successful the writing exercise was as this is done by the muscle movement.
Multi-sensory becomes a greater value when students maybe impaired such as sight, mental or physical impairment. In this case the efforts would be closely monitored and more than one sensory input will be used.
References: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hfes/hfproc/1998/00000042/00000003/art00012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E&feature=relatedhttp://reactable.iua.upf.edu/http://http://www.orton-gillingham.com/
Multi-sensory feedback can be used, on one hand, to decrease the possibility of occurrence of human mistakes and, in the other hand, as an aid to improve the human abilities such as in medical and educational areas because the interaction of different sensory modalities can powerfully interact to improve the perception.
There are many examples about good uses of multi-sensory feedback. A good one can be how a pilot can improve the way of capturing the attention of unexpected changes without affecting his performance while piloting. If the sight was the only sense to highlight important system status or unexpected changes, the pilot would lose concentration. Instead, if the wide range of sensory modalities available to human beings such as hearing, sight and touch were used, an effective multi-sensory feedback would be provided to the pilots’ attention “without affecting their performance on concurrent tasks”.
Another example of multi-sensory interface can be “reactable” an interface for producing music. Its functionality is based on moving and rotating physical objects in a luminous table which draws different shapes and plays different tones according to the movements of these physical objects. The feedback received by the user is both the light and the music produced by the movements, that is, touch, hearing and sight are used in this interface.In the next video can be appreciated the basics of that user interface, how it works and the feedback it produces.
Picture 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E&feature=player_embedded[25 October 2006]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4&feature=related
In education as well multi-sensory feedback can be used to increase students’ abilities and skills. There are teaching sessions called “Orton-Gillingham” which involves constant interaction between the teacher and the student and the simultaneous use of multiple sensory input channels”. With this interaction and the use of multiple input channels (hearing, sight, touch and kinaesthetic senses) not only an optimal learning is achieved, but enhances memory storage.
Multi-sensory feedback is the message sent to this sensory that can be used in different ways. Various methods are used so users have a better understanding of the message.
One of the uses of Multi-sensory feedback is for the teaching of handwriting skills to students which provides visual and aural signals during a writing exercise. Visually the accuracy is recorded on the student’s efforts in writing and traced letters which are reproduced are closely monitored, this is beneficial for student as they cannot record this if they did it themselves. By the use of this sensory immediate confirmation is given on how successful the writing exercise was as this is done by the muscle movement.
Multi-sensory becomes a greater value when students maybe impaired such as sight, mental or physical impairment. In this case the efforts would be closely monitored and more than one sensory input will be used.
References: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hfes/hfproc/1998/00000042/00000003/art00012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E&feature=relatedhttp://reactable.iua.upf.edu/http://http://www.orton-gillingham.com/
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