Gait coordination in overground walking with a virtual reality avatar.

ABSTRACT: Little information is currently available on interpersonal gait synchronization in overground walking. This is caused by difficulties in continuous gait monitoring over many steps while ensuring repeatability of experimental conditions. These challenges could be overcome by using immersive virtual reality (VR), assuming it offers ecological validity. To this end, this study provides some of the first evidence of gait coordination patterns for overground walking dyads in VR. Six subjects covered the total distance of 27 km while walking with a pacer. The pacer was either a real human subject or their anatomically and biomechanically representative VR avatar driven by an artificial intelligence algorithm. Side-by-side and front-to-back arrangements were tested without and with the instructio

SUBMITTER: Soczawa-Stronczyk AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7428218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature