Passive whole-body motions for generating pseudo-sensation of walking

• Amemiya Tomohiro

  Virtual Reality Educational Research Center, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

• Kitazaki Michiteru

  Toyohashi University of Technology

• Ikei Yasushi

  Tokyo Metropolitan University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 上下揺と旋回の受動的身体揺動による疑似歩行感覚の生成

Abstract

This paper examined the influence of passive whole-body motions such as heave or yaw motions by a motorized chair on inducing a sensation of walking for seated participants in virtual environments while viewing a VR scene through an HMD. We conducted a pilot study to evaluate the influence of passive whole-body motions on perception as if the participant were walking. Experimental results show that the perception of pseudo-walking was greatly affected by heave motions rather than yaw motions, but just with a limited range of amplitude of heave motions. Our results suggest that the passive whole-body motions in the gravitational axis allow a clear perception of pseudo-walking. In addition, we found a strong correlation between the scores of a walking sensation and a motion sickness.

Journal

• Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan

  Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan 24 (4), 371-376, 2019

  THE VIRTUAL REALITY SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Keywords

• Vestibular sensation
• Walking
• Multisensory
• bodily perception

Details

• CRID: 1390283659836905088
• NII Article ID: 130007777838
• DOI: 10.18974/tvrsj.24.4_371
• ISSN: 24239593
• ISSN: 1344011X
• Text Lang: ja
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