Cognitive Workload and Usability of Virtual Reality Simulation for Prosthesis Training
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Park, Junho; Music, Austin; Delgado, Daniel; Berman, Joseph; Dodson, Albert; Liu, Yunmei; Ruiz, Jaime; Huang, He; Kaber, David; Zahabi, Maryam
- Source
- 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2023 IEEE International Conference on. :1567-1572 Oct, 2023
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
General Topics for Engineers
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Training
Performance evaluation
Solid modeling
Virtual reality
Usability
Task analysis
Prosthetics
prosthesis
virtual reality
cognitive workload
usability
training
- Language
- ISSN
- 2577-1655
Amputees use prosthetic devices to perform activities of daily living. However, some users reject their devices due to the lack of usability or high cognitive workload. Although virtual reality has been studied in this domain for training purposes, there has not been any investigation on usability and cognitive workload of using virtual reality simulations for training of prosthetic devices. The objective of this study was to compare cognitive workload and usability of using virtual reality-based simulation of electromyography based prosthetic devices and physical devices. The findings suggested that using virtual reality simulations were helpful in reducing cognitive workload and increasing perceived usability of prosthetic devices.