Real-Time Visual Feedback Enhances Tower of Hanoi Manipulation Task

This paper investigates the effect of real-time visual feedback to enhance user performance in manipulation of 3 discs “Tower Of Hanoi” task by using Microsoft Visual C++ and OpenGL as a graphic library. This study measures the effectiveness of time taken to complete the task between simulation with real-time visual feedback and without feedback. To do this, a group of respondent have been chosen and tested on the “Tower of Hanoi” manipulation task, in which they received real-time visual feedback and without feedback. Result for time to complete the task has been plotted and analyzed. This work also evaluates the best method of real-time visual feedback in simulation task. Respondents have been given different type of visual feedback such as “colour” or “text” feedback and the time to complete the task has been plotted and analyzed. Three different methods have been investigated and the results showed that the shortest time taken to complete the task was obtained through the experiment with text feedback method while the minimum average number of steps to solve the Tower of Hanoi was also achieved via text feedback method.