Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres in Mixed Reality
Abstract
We describe a mixed reality environment that has been designed as an aid for training driving skills for a powered wheelchair. Our motivation is to provide an improvement on a previous virtual reality wheelchair driving simulator, with a particular aim to remove any cybersickness effects. The results of a validation test are presented that involved 35 able bodied volunteers divided into three groups: mixed reality trained, virtual reality trained, and a control group. No significant differences in improvement was found between the groups but there is a notable trend that both the mixed reality and virtual reality groups improved more than the control group. Whereas the virtual reality group experienced discomfort (as measured using a simulator sickness questionnaire), the mixed reality group experienced no side effects.Citation
Day, T. W. & John, N. W. (2019). Training powered wheelchair manoeuvres in mixed reality. In 2019 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications: Vienna, Austria, 4-6 September 2019 (pp. 41-47). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games48008.2019Publisher
IEEEJournal
Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious ApplicationsAdditional Links
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