A Study Applied to the Validation of the Box and Blocks Manual Dexterity Virtual Test with Non-Disabled Users

The present research had as objective to perform a concordance study of the interaction with physical and virtual artifacts. For this, the Box and Blocks test, which is considered the most simple and popular manual function test used in the world, was used as model task. There were 1.620 tests, 720 physical tests and 900 virtual immersive and non-immersive forms; collected with the 30 volunteers without altering the manual dexterity that concluded all the research. We analyzed the quantitative results of physical and virtual Box and Blocks tests and the usability requirements used to create the interactive applications. The virtual tests were created based on virtual reality heuristics and the approach to building serious games based on virtual reality for health. The immersive virtual tests were fully compatible with the physical results found in this research and with the literature reference results. The non-immersive virtual tests of previous vision showed compatibility after previous training, which enabled the learning of the virtual task.