Learning Collar with Camera and Screen for Skill Acquisition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional teaching methods fail to effectively break down complex skills into manageable components for individual learning and reintegration into the overall skill, leading to incorrect predictions and mistakes, as they often rely on visual feedback that overrides movement processing.
Innovation Solution
A collar with a camera and display system that conceals the body parts involved in the skill from direct view, providing real-time visual feedback on a screen, allowing students to focus on the feeling and movement of the actions without visual interference, promoting non-conscious memory and automaticity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If visual feedback is provided during skill practice, then the student can see their movements, but the visual processing overrides the movement processing and prevents correct prediction formation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the body parts involved in the skill from the student's direct visual field, extracting the visual feedback that was interfering with movement processing. The camera captures images of the concealed body parts and relays them to a screen, separating the visual information from the direct visual field to allow non-conscious prediction formation while still providing feedback for learning.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a camera and display screen as intermediary devices between the student's body and their visual perception. Instead of directly seeing their movements, the student views captured images on a screen, which mediates the visual feedback to prevent it from overriding movement processing while still providing necessary visual information for learning.
2Stability of the object's composition
If complex skills are practiced as a whole, then the overall skill is maintained, but individual components cannot be isolated and corrected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables segmentation of complex skills by allowing the student to focus on specific body parts or components that are concealed from direct view. The camera captures and displays specific components on a screen, enabling isolated practice and correction of individual skill elements while maintaining awareness of the overall skill context.
3Reliability
If the body is concealed from direct view, then movement processing is enhanced, but the student loses visual awareness of their position
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback system where a camera captures images of the concealed body parts and relays them to a display screen within the student's visual field. This provides visual feedback about position and movement without allowing direct viewing, enabling movement processing to occur while maintaining visual awareness through the mediated feedback loop.
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AI summary
Apparatus for aiding learning by a person comprises a cover or shield (1) for concealing from the person a part of the person's body, and a webcam (6) and a screen (10) for visually displaying to the person, during concealment of the concealed body part, images of a part of the person's body not in direct view of the person. The apparatus may be used in the learning of a skill, such as hand-writing. In another embodiment, the shield is a collar worn to conceal part of the wearer's body, and the webcam and screen display the concealed body part in real time to the wearer. This apparatus can be used in many applications, such as to learn sports activities or to correct body image, posture or movement.