Electric Wheelchair Navigation Simulators: why, when, how?

Abellard, Patrick; Randria, Iadaloharivola; Abellard, Alexandre; Khelifa, Mohamed Moncef Ben; Ramanantsizehena, P.

doi:10.5772/8927

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“…As said, different technologies have been incorporated to the field of rehabilitation engineering so far. Thus, together with experts in Neurosciences and Physical Medicine, several research groups have been working for the last years on prototypes of wheelchair simulators for users to ameliorate their day-to-day life by the creation of experiences in a risk-free environment (see, for example, the following revisions: Pithon et al 2009 andAbellard et al 2010). In this sense, the creation and validation of virtual environments have become an indispensable step so that the wheelchair users can simulate real movements and situations in order to improve the process, the sensations as well as the development of systems and devices (Mahajan et al, 2013;John et al, 2018).…”

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“…From the very first task as learning the use of power wheelchairs to the training in the daily actions (working at the office, using a lift, etc.) there is a lot of literature that collects the state of the art, exposes the problematic to face and explains the different solutions reached (Abellard et al, 2010;Fernández-Panadero et al 2012;Fernández-Panadero et al, 2014;Alshaer et al, 2017;Pinheiro et al, 2016;Tao & Archambault, 2016;Devigne et al, 2017;Gallien et al, 2017).…”

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Virtual Reality to Allow Wheelchair Users Touring Complex Archaeological Sites in a Realistic Manner. Towards Their Actual Social Integration

Tejado

Merchán

Salamanca

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Technology development really reaches its highest point when it becomes a tool to facilitate life to people, especially to those more disadvantaged groups. This is the case of people with disabilities, who find lots of barriers to cope with the most usual and simplest things in their day-to-day. This fact is even more significant when they happen to face heritage buildings or environments. For instance, blind people or people with reduced mobility too often come upon architectural barriers that stop them from enjoying sites and monuments. Focused on people that have to use wheelchairs, a VR experience have been developed in order to provide them with the most realistic sensations while virtually touring on their wheelchairs some archaeological sites. This paper presents the steps forder the users to have the same sensations as if they were wheeling on the floor while visiting the site: irregularities, slopes and narrowness. The VR application has been developed to traverse one of the most monumental buildings of the whole Spanish Protohistory, the site of Cancho Roano (Zalamea de la Serena, Spain). The procedure to generate its digital 3D model from real data acquired with a laser scanner is also dealt with in it.</p>

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Virtual Reality to Allow Wheelchair Users Touring Complex Archaeological Sites in a Realistic Manner. Towards Their Actual Social Integration

Tejado

Merchán

Salamanca

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…As a result, motor and cognitive skill assessment methods have been developed for years to facilitate the process of choosing the appropriate technical assistance systems. Thus, together with experts in Neurosciences and Physical Medicine, several research groups have been working on prototypes of wheelchair simulators to improve the users' daily lives by creating experiences in a risk-free environment [5,6]. The creation and validation of virtual environments have therefore become an indispensable tool for wheelchair users to simulate movements and real situations to improve the process, sensations, and development of systems and devices.…”

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Virtual Reality to Foster Social Integration by Allowing Wheelchair Users to Tour Complex Archaeological Sites Realistically

Tejado

Merchán

et al. 2020

Remote Sensing

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People with disabilities encounter numerous barriers when dealing with the simplest and most usual things in their daily lives. This is even more remarkable when they are faced with archaeological heritage buildings or environments. People with reduced mobility come too often upon architectural barriers that stop them from enjoying their visits to sites and monuments. This paper introduces a virtual reality (VR) experience developed to provide people in wheelchairs with the most realistic sensations while virtually touring some archaeological sites. To this end, the remote sensing of the site enables the production of a realistic 3D model leading to the creation of a virtual world that the user will explore. This VR application has been developed to traverse one of the most important monumental buildings in Spanish Protohistory, the site of Cancho Roano (Zalamea de la Serena, Spain).

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“…Navigational skills acquired thanks to training in simulation have also been demonstrated to positively transfer into real situations for military training [5] or more recently for car driving training [6]. Moreover, simulation allows safe wheelchair navigation within controlled and repeatable scenarios [7].…”

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User-centered design of a multisensory power wheelchair simulator: towards training and rehabilitation applications

Vailland¹,

Grzeskowiak²,

Devigne³

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

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Autonomy and social inclusion can reveal themselves everyday challenges for people experiencing mobility impairments. These people can benefit from technical aids such as power wheelchairs to access mobility and overcome social exclusion. However, power wheelchair driving is a challenging task which requires good visual, cognitive and visuo-spatial abilities. Besides, a power wheelchair can cause material damage or represent a danger of injury for others or oneself if not operated safely. Therefore, training and repeated practice are mandatory to acquire safe driving skills to obtain power wheelchair prescription from therapists. However, conventional training programs may reveal themselves insufficient for some people with severe impairments. In this context, Virtual Reality offers the opportunity to design innovative learning and training programs while providing realistic wheelchair driving experience within a virtual environment. In line with this, we propose a user-centered design of a multisensory power wheelchair simulator. This simulator addresses classical virtual experience drawbacks such as cybersickness and sense of presence by combining 3D visual rendering, haptic feedback and motion cues. It relies on a modular and versatile workflow enabling not only easy interfacing with any virtual display, but also with any user interface such as wheelchair controllers or feedback devices. This paper presents the design of the first implementation as well as its first commissioning through pretests. The first setup achieves consistent and realistic behavior.

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Electric Wheelchair Navigation Simulators: why, when, how?

Cited by 19 publications

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Virtual Reality to Allow Wheelchair Users Touring Complex Archaeological Sites in a Realistic Manner. Towards Their Actual Social Integration

Virtual Reality to Allow Wheelchair Users Touring Complex Archaeological Sites in a Realistic Manner. Towards Their Actual Social Integration

Virtual Reality to Foster Social Integration by Allowing Wheelchair Users to Tour Complex Archaeological Sites Realistically

User-centered design of a multisensory power wheelchair simulator: towards training and rehabilitation applications

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