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Title | ||
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Physical fidelity versus cognitive fidelity training in procedural skills acquisition. |
Abstract | ||
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Objective: The current study examined whether training simulators for the acquisition of procedural skills should emphasize physical fidelity or cognitive fidelity of the task. Background: Simulation-based training for acquiring and practicing procedural skills is becoming widely established. Generally speaking, these simulators offer technological sophistication but disregard theory-based design, leaving unanswered the question of what task features should be represented in the simulators. The authors compared real-world training and two alternative virtual trainers, one emphasizing physical fidelity and the other cognitive fidelity of the task. Method: Participants were randomly assigned to one of four training groups in a LEGO (R) assembly task: virtual-physical fidelity, cognitive fidelity, real world, and control. A posttraining test to assess the development of procedural skills was conducted. Results: Both the virtual-physical fidelity and cognitive fidelity training methods produced better performance time than no training at all, as did the real-world training. The cognitive fidelity training was inferior in terms of test time compared to the real-world training, whereas the virtual-physical fidelity training was not. In contrast, only the real-world and the cognitive fidelity groups, and not the virtual-physical fidelity group, required significantly less time than the control group for error correction. Conclusion: The two training methods have complementary advantages. Application: Combining physical fidelity and cognitive training methods can enhance procedural skills acquisition when real-world training is not practicable. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1177/0018720811412777 | HUMAN FACTORS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
trainers,virtual reality,human factors,transfer of training | Social psychology,Fidelity,Virtual reality,Simulation,Transfer of training,Psychology,Cognition,Sophistication | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
53 | 5 | 0018-7208 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.59 | 2 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Ilanit Hochmitz | 1 | 4 | 0.59 |
| Nirit Yuviler-gavish | 2 | 32 | 3.91 |