A study was conducted to investigate the effects of auditory and haptic feedback for a “point and select” computing task at
two levels of cognitive workload. Participants were assigned to one of three computer-mouse haptic feedback groups (regular
non-haptic mouse, haptic mouse with kinesthetic feedback, and haptic mouse with kinesthetic and force feedback). Each group
received two auditory feedback conditions (sound on, sound off) for each of the cognitive workload conditions (single task
or dual task). Even though auditory feedback did not significantly improve task performance, all groups rated the sound-on
conditions as requiring less work than the sound-off conditions. Similarly, participants believed that kinesthetic feedback
improved their detection of errors, even though mouse feedback did not produce significant differences in performance. Implications
for adding multi-modal feedback to computer-based tasks are discussed.