Abstract
We outline an experimental setup designed to dynamically understand neural responses to visual cliffs while walking. The goal of our work is understanding and mitigating fear of falling, particularly among the elderly. In our setup, an EEG cap monitors a subject's neural activity while the subject is immersed in a virtual world and walking on an instrumented treadmill. The subject's response to visual stimuli is measured by both the EEG cap and by speed and pressure data from the treadmill. Based on this data, we can dynamically alter the landscape in the virtual world. We hope that our setup may be useful in helping subjects develop mechanisms to compensate for significant fear of falling while walking.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 81-84 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538636466 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 26 2018 |
| Event | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Jul 18 2018 → Jul 21 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS |
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| Volume | 2018-July |
| ISSN (Print) | 1557-170X |
Other
| Other | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Honolulu |
| Period | 7/18/18 → 7/21/18 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics
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Virtual Reality, Visual Cliffs, and Movement Disorders. / Kaur, Rachneet; Lin, Xun; Layton, Alexander; Hernandez, Manuel; Sowers, Richard.
40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 81-84 8512246 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2018-July).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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