Training wheelchair navigation in immersive virtual environments for patients with spinal cord injury – end-user input to design an effective system

Abstract

The Oculus Rift Wheelchair Training System has the potential to provide a virtual rehabilitation setting which could allow wheelchair users to learn valuable community wheelchair use in a safe environment. Nausea appears to be a side effect of the system, which will need to be resolved before this can be a viable clinical tool. Implications for Rehabilitation Immersive virtual reality shows promising benefit for wheelchair training in a rehabilitation setting. Early engagement with consumers can improve product development.

Comparison of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive: Feasibility for Virtual Reality-Based Exploration, Navigation, Exergaming, and Rehabilitation

“…8 Concurrent with the renewed interest in VR, 9 an increasing number of systems have been presented in the past years. [10][11][12][13] As described by the manufacturers, these new devices provide improved features, such as higher resolution, faster refresh rate, and wider field of view, at dramatically lower costs than early systems. In addition, new HMDs include built-in tracking mechanisms to estimate the position and orientation of the head in real time, which enables perspective correction and allows users to freely move, at least to some extent, as in the real world in a room-size environment.…”

Therapeutic effect of methylprednisolone combined with high frequency electrotherapy on acute spinal cord injury in rats

“…Secondary lesions are more severe, and result from the cascade-amplification effects of primary injury. Secondary lesions can result in damage to residual neural pathways and further loss of function, but are both controllable and reversible (7,8).…”

An Augmented Reality-based Telerehabilitation Architecture for Supporting the Training of Powered Wheelchair Users

“…Looking for best practices concerning training methodology and assessment tools, Valentini et al (VALENTINI et al, 2019) studied the works proposed by (JOHN et al, 2018;MARTINS et al, 2017;NUNNERLEY et al, 2017;TORKIA et al, 2015;MAHAJAN et al, 2013).…”

“…John et al cite john 2018 presents the statistical training results between each of the groups of healthy participants through a one-way Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA). Nunnerley et al (NUNNERLEY et al, 2017) have developed an immersive VR training system to build driving skills to eligible participants. Among them are, clinicians and experts PW users with Spine Cord Injury (SCI).…”