Gait Parameters while Walking in a Head-mounted Display Virtual Environment and the Real World

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2007
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The Eurographics Association
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Full-body motion tracking data was collected for six subjects during free walking. Each participant was asked to walk to a previously seen target under four experimental conditions: eyes closed within the real world, eyes closed wearing a head-mounted display (HMD), eyes open in the real world, and eyes open wearing a HMD. We report three gait parameters for each of these four conditions: stride length, walking velocity, and head-trunk angle. This data reveals that these gait parameters within a HMD virtual environment (VE) are different than those in the real world. A person wearing a HMD and backpack walks slower, and takes a shorter stride length than they do in a comparable real world condition. In addition, head-trunk angle while walking to a target on the ground plane is lowest when walking with eyes open in a HMD VE.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/PE/VE2007Short/085-088
, booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, Short Papers and Posters
}, editor = {
Bernd Froehlich and Roland Blach and Robert van Liere
}, title = {{
Gait Parameters while Walking in a Head-mounted Display Virtual Environment and the Real World
}}, author = {
Mohler, Betty J.
and
Campos, Jennifer L.
and
Weyel, Michael B.
and
Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
}, year = {
2007
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905673-64-7
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/PE/VE2007Short/085-088
} }
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