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Date
2016-11Type
- Conference Paper
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Abstract
Postural stability is an important measure for many medical diseases such as Parkinson. In the last years, research focused on using inexpensive and portable devices to measure postural stability, while the visual targets were physical objects in the environment. Sensing balancing boards were used to measure stance forces, while movements of the upper body were not taken into account. Within this paper, postural stability was measured using the HTC Vive. A variation of a virtual fixation point's distance was analyzed and compared to a reference condition with closed eyes. It is shown that body sway in the VR conditions is increased in the anterior-posterior and decreased in the medial-lateral direction. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010778141Publication status
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Book title
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '16)Pages / Article No.
Publisher
Association for Computing MachineryEvent
Subject
Virtual reality; Body sway; Postural stabilityOrganisational unit
03641 - Wegener, Konrad (emeritus) / Wegener, Konrad (emeritus)
02623 - Inst. f. Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigung / Inst. Machine Tools and Manufacturing
08844 - Kunz, Andreas (Tit.-Prof.) / Kunz, Andreas (Tit.-Prof.)
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