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>>Keshner ÓWe're really in this laboratory into bringing people into as natural an experience
as they will have in real life so they will get to practice it first in the laboratory.
When I got into virtual reality, we felt we had to expand our understanding of posture
from the person just being standing upright to the person orienting themselves in an environment.
É using virtual reality to examine balance abilities in people who are elderly and people
who've had a stroke. I said it would be really nice if we could create street scenes so that
when we bring our patients in, we could have them experience the traffic and the interactions
they would have with people on the street and have to adjust their balance and deal
with things that would disturb their balance in the real world.Ó
>> McClane Ò I had a background in 3d modeling and that is what brought me to this project.
To create a virtual environment for the patients to move around in. Add textures to it, add
cars, some other things.
>>Keshner Ò Having a street scene is as close to bringing them into the natural world without
putting them in front of a car.Ó
>> Teodoro ÒWhat we're looking at right now is a program designed to generate a face for
the avatar program. We can give it different expressions, such as disgust, fear, sadness.
>> Keshner ÒWe want to have people experience meeting all kinds of ethnic identities that
they would meet in their normal environment. And weÕre interested in working with patients
who have aphasia. We would hope that it would promote natural intercourse, verbal intercourse
where they would sit and talk to this computer as if they were talking to someone on the
street, in a store and we want to again make it very realistic which
is the value of having virtual reality.Ó