Comparing Haptic and Visual Training Method of Learning Chinese Handwriting with a Haptic Guidance

In this paper a use of haptic and visual training for Chinese handwriting learning is investigated. Participants learned a given character under three training conditions (haptic, visual, haptic-visual) and were required to write the given character plus two characters with common stokes on a tablet before and after training for improvement comparison. Performance was measured in terms of mean speed, inair time, size, order, and shape. Findings from this study indicate that visual information provides benefits for learning writing shape, while haptic information showed significant improvement in the transfer of shape learning. The combination of visual and haptic information helped to reduce air time, and showed better results than only visual information