Predicting Performance During a Dynamic Target Acquisition Task in Immersive Virtual Reality

PubDate: August 2018

Teams: Duke University

Writers: Jillian Clements

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Abstract

Visual-motor skill is the ability integrate visual perception and motor control. These skills allow the eyes and hands to move in a coordinated way to optimally achieve the goal of the task at hand, which is crucial for success in tasks such as athletics or surgery. Immersive virtual reality (VR) provides a controllable experimental environment to study visual-motor skill learning. In this work, we present a novel experimental framework that combines immersive VR and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the kinematic and neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie motor skill performance during a multi-day simulated marksmanship training regimen. We propose two approaches for modeling the biological elements associated with visual-motor skill to predict shot success based on kinematic data and neurophysiological biomarkers.