Virtual exertions: Evoking the sense of exerting forces in virtual reality using gestures and muscle activity

Human Factors

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 658-673

  Chen, Karen B ^a   Ponto, Kevin ^a   Tredinnick, Ross D ^a   Radwin, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

computer interface; electromyography (EMG); forces and moments; simulation and virtual reality; virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MUSCLE; NASA; OBJECT TRACKING;

CAVE AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; FORCES AND MOMENTS; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; MUSCLE FATIGUES; PERCEIVED EXERTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; PROOF OF CONCEPT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LIFTING; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930439784     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720814562231     Document Type: Article

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