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Virtual Reality Based Testing of Power Wheelchair Driving Skills

NCT00951509 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2015-08-24

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Summary

The purpose of this research study is to examine whether computer based or virtual reality based driving assessments are as useful as real-world power wheelchair driving tests in measuring driving performance and whether they may be useful in helping to identify the problems that some individuals may have with driving power wheelchairs. The specific aims are as follows:

Specific Aim 1: To develop computer-based and VR-based wheelchair driving assessments for both drivers and non-drivers that correspond to an accepted real-world driving assessment (Power Mobility Road Test) and compare them to the real-world assessment and to each other.

Specific Aim 2: To develop additional features of the computer-based and VR-based assessments that present dynamic tasks and determine whether skills on these tasks can be delineated within the virtual environment.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Spina Bifida
  • Spinal Cord Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Power Mobility Road Test (PMRT)

All subjects will underwent the Power Mobility Road Test (PMRT), and the clinicians scored the driving performance within each condition.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Rory A. Cooper, PhD · Director, Center of Excellence for Wheelchairs and Related Technology

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-01-31
Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • United States

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