Assessment of driving skills using virtual reality: Comparative survey on experts and unskilled users of electric wheelchairs

Technology and Disability

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 217-226

  Hafid, N ^a   Inoue, Takenobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assessment; Driving skills; Electric wheelchair; Simulation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISABILITY; DRIVING ABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POWER SPECTRUM; POWERED WHEELCHAIR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33845801310     PISSN: 10554181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/tad-2006-18409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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