Making virtual walking real: Perceptual evaluation of a new treadmill control algorithm

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Souman, Jan L ^a   Giordano, Paolo Robuffo ^a,b   Frissen, Ilja ^a,c   De Luca, Alessandro ^c   Ernst, Marc O ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motion control; Treadmill walking; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DIRECTION OF MOTION; INADEQUATE CONTROLS; LARGE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; TREADMILL WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; MOTION CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEED; SPORTING GOODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 79951634469     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145//1670671.1670675     Document Type: Article

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