Comparison of virtual and real electric powered wheelchair driving using a position sensing joystick and an isometric joystick

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 703-708

  Cooper, Rory A ^a,b   Spaeth, Donald M ^a,b   Jones, Daniel K ^b,c   Boninger, Michael L ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Shirley G ^a,b   Guo, Songfeng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controls; Human performance; Human machine interface; Virtual reality; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

DRIVER TRAINING; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; WHEELCHAIRS;

ISOMETRIC JOYSTICK;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TRAINING; WHEELCHAIR; ALGORITHM; BIOENGINEERING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0036890689     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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