Gait Parameters while Walking in a Head-mounted Display Virtual Environment and the Real World
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Date
2007
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Full-body motion tracking data was collected for six subjects during free walking. Each participant was asked to walk to a previously seen target under four experimental conditions: eyes closed within the real world, eyes closed wearing a head-mounted display (HMD), eyes open in the real world, and eyes open wearing a HMD. We report three gait parameters for each of these four conditions: stride length, walking velocity, and head-trunk angle. This data reveals that these gait parameters within a HMD virtual environment (VE) are different than those in the real world. A person wearing a HMD and backpack walks slower, and takes a shorter stride length than they do in a comparable real world condition. In addition, head-trunk angle while walking to a target on the ground plane is lowest when walking with eyes open in a HMD VE.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:PE/VE2007Short/085-088,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, Short Papers and Posters},
editor = {Bernd Froehlich and Roland Blach and Robert van Liere},
title = {{Gait Parameters while Walking in a Head-mounted Display Virtual Environment and the Real World}},
author = {Mohler, Betty J. and Campos, Jennifer L. and Weyel, Michael B. and Bülthoff, Heinrich H.},
year = {2007},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-64-7},
DOI = {10.2312/PE/VE2007Short/085-088}
}