Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres in Mixed Reality

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Day, Thomas W.
John, Nigel W.
Affiliation
University of Chester
Publication Date
2019-09

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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.
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Day, T.W. & John, N.W. (2019). Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres in Mixed Reality. In Proc. of 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, Vienna, Austria
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IEEE Xplore
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Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/622360
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https://vsgames.org/2019/
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en
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