The peloton bicycling simulator

Carraro, Gianpaolo U.; Cortés, Mauricio; Edmark, John T.; Ensor, J. Robert

doi:10.1145/271897.274372

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“…Although a few sport simulators incorporating augmented or virtual reality have been developed, such as for rowing (Frisoli et al, 2008;Ruffaldi, Gonzales, et al, 2009;von Zitzewitz et al, 2008), canoeing (Tang, Carignan, & Olsson, 2006), bicycling (Carraro, Cortes, Edmark, & Ensor, 1998;Mestre, Maïano, Dagonneau, & Mercier, 2011), bobsledding (Kelly & Hubbard, 2000), archery (Göbel, Geiger, Heinze, & Marinos, 2010), gymnastics (Multon, Hoyet, Komura, & Kulpa, 2007), and dancing (Drobny & Borchers, 2010;Drobny, Weiss, & Borchers, 2009;Nakamura, Tabata, Ueda, Kiyofuji, & Kuno, 2005), these simulators have not been used to examine the effectiveness of augmented feedback for motor learning or to evaluate different visual feedback designs. The design of a visual feedback may have a significant impact on the outcome; for example, reduced visibility fostered learning more than did fully visible feedback (Robin et al, 2005).…”

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Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review

et al. 2012

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It is generally accepted that augmented feedback, provided by a human expert or a technical display, effectively enhances motor learning. However, discussion of the way to most effectively provide augmented feedback has been controversial. Related studies have focused primarily on simple or artificial tasks enhanced by visual feedback. Recently, technical advances have made it possible also to investigate more complex, realistic motor tasks and to implement not only visual, but also auditory, haptic, or multimodal augmented feedback. The aim of this review is to address the potential of augmented unimodal and multimodal feedback in the framework of motor learning theories. The review addresses the reasons for the different impacts of feedback strategies within or between the visual, auditory, and haptic modalities and the challenges that need to be overcome to provide appropriate feedback in these modalities, either in isolation or in combination. Accordingly, the design criteria for successful visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback are elaborated.

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Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review

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“…But the use of exercise equipment to interact with video games is not a new idea. The Atari Puffler project from 1982 connected an exercise bike to a game console [2], followed by more recent proposals sharing the same idea [4,19]. Other typical applications are those related to dance, for example the game "Dance Dance Revolution" or the open source clone "StepMania", used with the help of a computer peripheral called "dance pad", and extensely used for physical therapy to treat both obesity in children and for general exercise [17].…”

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RunWithUs

Gil‐Castiñeira

Fernández-López

Bravo

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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Authorities recommend the practice of moderate physical activity to improve health and quality of life, but sometimes it is difficult to find the willpower or the motivation to reserve a few minutes to exercise. In this paper we describe a new tool designed to help users to practice sport and record their achievements, which makes the activity more social (finding friends, sharing results, etc.). Furthermore, this tool has been integrated in the "Ubiquitous Oulu", an intelligent city that provides the building blocks to bring it closer to citizens. In this real-life environment we had the opportunity to assess the technical viability of RunWithUs and to identify the main interests of its potential users.

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“…It is a locomotion interface comparable to Sarcos Treadport [Hollerbach et al 2000], Trike [Allison et al 2000] and Peloton Bicycling Simulator [Carraro et al 1998]. The swimmer is suspended in a real swimming apparatus but navigates in a virtual Pacific Ocean environment.…”

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Swimming across the Pacific

Chen¹,

Kinoshita²,

Takama³

et al. 2004

ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging Technologies on - SIGGRAPH '04

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Figure 1: The SAP apparatusWe have created a new locomotion interface for swimming and floating in a virtual ocean in a VR environment as part of our Swimming Across the Pacific (SAP) artwork [sap ]. The artwork is motivated by Alzek Mischeff's Swimming Across the Atlantic [Misheff 1982[Misheff ] performed in 1982 In the SAP artwork, we swim across the Pacific Ocean using the swimming apparatus in an airplane rather than across the ocean in an ocean liner as Misheff did. The TechnologySAP provides an exciting and fun swimming apparatus for the expert performer and the novice. It is a locomotion interface comparable to Sarcos Treadport [Hollerbach et al. 2000], Trike [Allison et al. 2000] and Peloton Bicycling Simulator [Carraro et al. 1998]. The swimmer is suspended in a real swimming apparatus but navigates in a virtual Pacific Ocean environment. The apparatus, an 8ft x 8ft x 8ft wooden frame, may resemble a torture-chamber but it is actually very comfortable to be suspended in. The use of bungee cords adds buoyancy, while sand bags counterbalance the swimmer's weight and adds inertial resistance to the swimmer's kicking actions. Swimmers wear a minimal amount of equipment (a tracked HMD, a hang-gliding harness, and wrists and ankle bands for securing 8 position sensors) such that he or she is hindered as little as possible during virtual swimming. Figure 1 inset depicts the swimmer in the sap apparatus.The virtual environment comprises a sky hemisphere, a sea surface plane, an ocean floor plane, a virtual avatar and various lighting for different times of the day. Figure 1 provides a snap shot of the virtual environment. The sky hemisphere is texture-mapped with moving clouds. And the ocean floor plane has a rugged plane, texturemapped with rocks. Both planes are animated to move past the vir- * tzupei, yuichiro, yasufumi, gadd, ssfels@ece.ubc.ca † kenji@center.nitech.ac.jp tual swimmer, making it appear as if the virtual avatar is swimming forward.The virtual avatar can be adjusted so that the arms, legs and torso match every participant. This calibration is done using known configurations of the participant as well as measurements combined with the eight measured points from the trackers.As swimming takes place, waves are shown at the sea surface plane. We use recurrence relations to solve the partial differential equation for the 2D wave as often done in standard practice. We approximate the volume of the swimmer with bounding boxes to improve performance and determine when they intersect any of the water grids as they move. When they intersect, the height of the water grids is set to the same as the bounding box. Then waves are made and propagated. If the height is over a pre-defined threshold value and/or the swimming avatar's motion interferes with waves, some particles are made in the air to simulate splashing. As the splashing water particles fall down onto the water surface, the water grids are set to the appropriate height according to the wave model. ConclusionSAP is a novel technology inspired by ...

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The peloton bicycling simulator

Cited by 36 publications

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Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review

Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review

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