Investigations on the interactions between vision and locomotion using a treadmill virtual environment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5666, Issue , 2005, Pages 481-492

  Thompson, William B ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah H ^b   Mohler, Betty J ^a   Willemsen, Peter ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Treadmill virtual environments; Visual self motion

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; TREADMILL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL SELF-MOTION; WALKING SPEED;

BIOMECHANICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOTION ESTIMATION; WALKING AIDS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 21944445798     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.610861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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