Development and Testing of a Portable Virtual Reality-Based Mirror Visual Feedback System with Behavioral Measures Monitoring

Beatriz Rey, Alejandro Oliver, Jose M. Monzo and Inmaculada Riquelme
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Beatriz Rey: Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Alejandro Oliver: Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Jose M. Monzo: Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (I3M), Centro Mixto CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Inmaculada Riquelme: Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has been used to provide the Mirror Visual Feedback (MVF) illusion to patients with promising results. In the present work, the goal is to design, develop and test a portable VR-based MVF system that monitors behavioral information about the performance of a simple motor task. The developed application runs in a stand-alone VR system and allows the researcher to select the real and virtual hands used to perform the motor task. The system was evaluated with a group of twenty healthy volunteers (12 men and 8 women) with ages between 18 and 66 years. Participants had to repetitively perform a motor task in four different experimental conditions: two mirror conditions (performing real movements with the dominant and with the non-dominant hand) and two non-mirror conditions. A significant effect of the experimental condition on embodiment score ( p < 0.001), response time ( p < 0.001), performance time ( p < 0.001), trajectory length ( p < 0.004) and trajectory maximum horizontal deviation ( p < 0.001) was observed. Furthermore, a significant effect of the experimental moment (initial, middle and final parts of the training) on the performance time was observed ( p < 0.001). These results show that the monitored parameters provide relevant information to evaluate the participant’s task performance in different experimental conditions.

Keywords: mirror visual feedback; virtual reality; behavioral measures; response time; performance time; trajectories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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