One of my arti­cles was accep­ted for the con­fe­rence pro­cee­ding. I am glad to leave that first inter­na­tio­nal small foot­print in the records of science.

Con­fe­rence: Medi­cine Meets Vir­tual Rea­lity, MMVR15
Loca­tion: Long Beach, California
Date: Febru­ary 6–9, 2007
Title: Obst­a­cle Cros­sing in a Vir­tual Environ­ment with the Reha­bi­li­ta­tion Gait Robot LOKOMAT
Aut­hors: Mathias Well­ner
Tho­mas Thü­ring
Eldin Sma­jic
Joa­chim von Zit­ze­witz
Alex­an­der Duschau-​​Wicke
Robert Rie­ner
Abstract: The reha­bi­li­ta­tion robot LOKOMAT has been deve­l­o­ped at the Bal­grist
Uni­ver­sity Hos­pi­tal to auto­mate tre­ad­mill trai­ning of spinal cord injury and stroke
pati­ents. A vir­tual environ­ment setup was imple­men­ted to increase patient’s moti­va­tion and pro­vide bio­feed­back, con­sis­ting of visual, acoustic and hap­tic moda­li­ties. Based on the knee and hip angles of the ortho­sis, an ani­ma­ted figurine moves
through a vir­tual environ­ment.
This con­tri­bu­tion descri­bes the setup of the sys­tem and selec­ted tech­ni­cal per­for­mance para­me­ters. We focu­sed on delay times cau­sed by the setup, sta­bi­lity of the
hap­tic obst­a­cle ren­de­ring and on the level of immer­sion as jud­ged by four healthy
sub­jects.
Results show that sub­jects jud­ged the system’s per­for­mance well (ques­ti­onn­aire
scores over 80%). Pro­blems exist though for obst­a­cle ren­de­ring (ques­ti­onn­aire
scores of 55%).

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