Maintaining Balance when Looking at a Virtual Reality Three-Dimensional Display of a Field of Moving Dots or at a Virtual Reality Scene.

ABSTRACT:

Experimental objective

To provide a safe, simple, relatively inexpensive, fast, accurate way of quantifying balance performance either in isolation, or in the face of challenges provided by 3D high definition moving visual stimuli as well as by the proprioceptive challenge from standing on a foam pad. This method uses the new technology of the Wii balance board to measure postural stability during powerful, realistic visual challenges from immersive virtual reality.

Limitations of current techniques

Present computerized methods for measuring postural stability are large, complex, slow, and expensive, and do not allow for testing the response to realistic visual challenges.

Protocol

Subjects stand on a 6 cm thick, firm, foam pad on a Wii balance board. They wear a fast

SUBMITTER: Chiarovano E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515556 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature