Virtual Reality Training for Motor Skills
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
The goal of this interventional study is to learn how force feedback in virtual reality training affects electroencephalography (EEG) biomarkers and/or real-world motor performance. The main question it aims to answer is:
● How does physical training compared to virtual reality training with force feedback compared with virtual reality training without force feedback affect EEG biomarkers and/or motor performance?
Participants will:
* Have baseline EEG measurements taken before, during, and after participation in either a physical or virtual training activity.
* Participate in the selected training activity they have been randomly assigned to (either physical, virtual with force feedback or virtual without force feedback)
* For both VR training groups, they will have their motor performance measured performing the real world physical activity once they have completed the training activity. This will function as a transfer task.
Who Is on the Research Team?
Bernadette Murphy, PhD
Principal Investigator
Ontario Tech University
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for healthy individuals interested in improving motor skills. Participants should not have any health conditions that would prevent them from safely taking part in physical or virtual reality training.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Trial Overview
The study compares three types of training: real-world physical training, virtual reality (VR) with force feedback, and VR without force feedback. Participants are randomly assigned to one group and their brain activity and movement performance are measured before and after the training.
How Is the Trial Designed?
3
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Placebo Group
Participants use the virtual reality simulator along with a mechanism that is activated with resistance and coded with accurate trajectory.
Participants use the physical simulator complete with an internal mechanism that is activated with resistance and coded with accurate trajectory.
Participants use the virtual reality simulator along with a mechanism that is limp and does not provide resistance.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Lead Sponsor
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