Feedback, Affordances and Accelerators for Training sports in Virtual Environments

The use of Virtual Environment (VE) for training sports is quite natural when considering strategic or cognitive aspects. Using VE for sensori-motor training is more challenging, in particular with the difficulty of transferring the task learned in the virtual-world to the real. Of special concern for the successful transfer is the adequate combination of training experience protocols and the delivery modes of multimodal feedback. Analyzing feedback in terms of information exchange, this work discusses different feedback combinations and their application to virtual reality training of rowing skills.