Providing access to VR through a wheelchair

John Paulin Hansen; Astrid Kofod Trudslev; Sara Amdi Harild; Alexandre Alapetite; Katsumi Minakata

doi:10.1145/3290607.3299048

Providing access to VR through a wheelchair

John Paulin Hansen, Astrid Kofod Trudslev, Sara Amdi Harild, Alexandre Alapetite, Katsumi Minakata

Department of Technology, Management and Economics

Technical University of Denmark

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Individuals may use their wheelchair to play VR games, explore three-dimensional, visual worlds and take part in virtual social events, even if they do not master the hand- or head- inputs that are common for VR. We present the development of a low-cost, do-it-yourself, wheelchair locomotion-device, which allows navigation in VR. More than 50 people, including 9 wheelchair users, participated in the evaluations of three prototypes and a number of games developed for them. Initially, cybersickness turned out to be a problem, but when we changed to an electric wheelchair instead of a manual and fine-tuned the controls this discomfort was remarkably reduced. We suggest using this device for gaming, training, interaction design, accessibility studies and the operation of robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2019 Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2019
Article number	3299048
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299048
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Conference	Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	04/05/2019 → 09/05/2019

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Hansen, JP , Trudslev, AK, Harild, SA, Alapetite, A & Minakata, K 2019, Providing access to VR through a wheelchair. in Extended Abstracts of the 2019 Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ., 3299048, Association for Computing Machinery, Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 04/05/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299048

Providing access to VR through a wheelchair. / Hansen, John Paulin ; Trudslev, Astrid Kofod; Harild, Sara Amdi et al.
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3299048.

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