Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice
Participating in physical exercise using remote platforms is challenging for people with vision impairment due to their lack of vision. Thus, there is a need to provide nonvisual feedback to this population to improve the performance and safety of remote exercise. In this study, the effects of diffe...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-10-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Sports and Active Living |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.1005003/full |
| _version_ | 1811256954168803328 |
|---|---|
| author | Md Shafiqul Islam Sang Won Lee Samantha M. Harden Sol Lim |
| author_facet | Md Shafiqul Islam Sang Won Lee Samantha M. Harden Sol Lim |
| author_sort | Md Shafiqul Islam |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Participating in physical exercise using remote platforms is challenging for people with vision impairment due to their lack of vision. Thus, there is a need to provide nonvisual feedback to this population to improve the performance and safety of remote exercise. In this study, the effects of different nonvisual types of feedback (verbal, vibrotactile, and combined verbal and vibrotactile) for movement correction were tested with 22 participants with normal vision to investigate the feasibility of the feedback system and pilot tested with four participants with impaired vision. The study with normal-vision participants found that nonvisual feedback successfully corrected an additional 11.2% of movements compared to the no-feedback condition. Vibrotactile feedback was the most time-efficient among other types of feedback in correcting poses. Participants with normal vision rated multimodal feedback as the most strongly preferred modality. In a pilot test, participants with impaired vision also showed a similar trend. Overall, the study found providing vibrotactile (or multimodal) feedback during physical exercise to be an effective way of improving exercise performance. Implications for future training platform development with vibrotactile or multimodal feedback for people with impaired vision are discussed. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-12T17:49:06Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-4f635a68ef65490a87b98d881ef51a12 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2624-9367 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-12T17:49:06Z |
| publishDate | 2022-10-01 |
| publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Frontiers in Sports and Active Living |
| spelling | doaj.art-4f635a68ef65490a87b98d881ef51a122022-12-22T03:22:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sports and Active Living2624-93672022-10-01410.3389/fspor.2022.10050031005003Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practiceMd Shafiqul Islam0Sang Won Lee1Samantha M. Harden2Sol Lim3Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesDepartment of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesParticipating in physical exercise using remote platforms is challenging for people with vision impairment due to their lack of vision. Thus, there is a need to provide nonvisual feedback to this population to improve the performance and safety of remote exercise. In this study, the effects of different nonvisual types of feedback (verbal, vibrotactile, and combined verbal and vibrotactile) for movement correction were tested with 22 participants with normal vision to investigate the feasibility of the feedback system and pilot tested with four participants with impaired vision. The study with normal-vision participants found that nonvisual feedback successfully corrected an additional 11.2% of movements compared to the no-feedback condition. Vibrotactile feedback was the most time-efficient among other types of feedback in correcting poses. Participants with normal vision rated multimodal feedback as the most strongly preferred modality. In a pilot test, participants with impaired vision also showed a similar trend. Overall, the study found providing vibrotactile (or multimodal) feedback during physical exercise to be an effective way of improving exercise performance. Implications for future training platform development with vibrotactile or multimodal feedback for people with impaired vision are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.1005003/fullremote physical activityvibrotactile feedbackyogavision impairmentsregular exercise |
| spellingShingle | Md Shafiqul Islam Sang Won Lee Samantha M. Harden Sol Lim Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice Frontiers in Sports and Active Living remote physical activity vibrotactile feedback yoga vision impairments regular exercise |
| title | Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| title_full | Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| title_fullStr | Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| title_short | Effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| title_sort | effects of vibrotactile feedback on yoga practice |
| topic | remote physical activity vibrotactile feedback yoga vision impairments regular exercise |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.1005003/full |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mdshafiqulislam effectsofvibrotactilefeedbackonyogapractice AT sangwonlee effectsofvibrotactilefeedbackonyogapractice AT samanthamharden effectsofvibrotactilefeedbackonyogapractice AT sollim effectsofvibrotactilefeedbackonyogapractice |