1. Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres in Mixed Reality
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Nigel W. John and Thomas W. Day
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Driving skills ,Wheelchair ,business.product_category ,Validation test ,Applied psychology ,Simulator sickness ,Driving simulator ,Virtual reality ,business ,Psychology ,Headphones ,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.
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- 2019
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