From: Mike Snow Subject: Re: APPS: Virtual Reality and Rehabilitation Date: 8 Aug 1995 20:39:52 GMT Message-ID: <408i2o$b5n@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia I found your post interesting. We recently designed and built a virtual mockup of a lab that is now under construction at a nearby building. We included a wheelchair view for which the viewpoint was at the eye height of a person sitting in a wheelchair and the virtual body to which the viewpoint was attached was the size of a person in a wheelchair. Use of this viewpoint actually resulted in a late design change: the one-way mirrors in the lab were lowered and widened when the professors who will use the lab toured it from the wheelchair viewpoint. We referred to this as "putting oneself in the other fellow's wheels" and it was a powerful demonstration of the difference in perspective of a person in a wheelchair. Screen captures of this virtual world (including before and after shots of the mirrors) are linked to my home page (see below URL). __ ________ Michael P. Snow \ \ / __ __/ FAX: (703)231-3322 Human-Computer Interaction Lab \ \/ / / / email: msnow@vt.edu ISE Department, Virginia Tech \ / / / phone: (703)231-3193 Blacksburg, VA 24061-0118 \/ /_/ WWW: http://hci.ise.vt.edu/~msnow/