Implementation of an Authoring Tool for Wheelchair Simulation with Visual and Vestibular Feedback

In this study, we develop a wheelchair simulator that provides visual and vestibular feedback at a low cost by leveraging the combination of vection-inducing movies displayed on a head-mounted display and vestibular feedback provided by an electric-powered wheelchair. However, this simulator requires users to manually create a syn-chronized pair of a VR movie and a motion scenario (chronological control commands for the wheelchair), which necessitates consid-erable effort and experience. In this paper, we introduce a novel authoring tool that generates a pair of a VR movie and a motion scenario based on a few parameters entered by the user.