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Motigravity: A New VR System to Increase Performance and Safety in Space Operations Simulation and Rehabilitation Medicine

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Motigravity is a new immersive instrument developed by Mars Planet where one or more persons interact with a virtual environment using a visual and biomechanical system. The applications of this system are various; here, applications in space operations simulation and rehabilitation medicine, in particular, are presented. This paper aims to bring to the scientific community knowledge about this recently developed virtual reality technology in order to motivate cooperation, development, and application of this facility.

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Acknowledgments

We express our thanks to all the persons and institutions involved in this research such as Mars Planet, the extreme-design.eu research group, Politecnico di Milano, Spacemedex, the Austrian Space Forum, and the Training and Assessment Research Group from the University College of Southeast Norway.

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  1. Italian Mars Society, Via Dalmine, 10/A, 24035, Curno, BG, Italy

    Antonio Del Mastro

  2. Extreme-Design Research Group, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Via Durando 38-a, 20100, Milan, Italy

    Irene Lia Schlacht

  3. SPACEMEDEX, Business Pole, Bat.A, Entrée B, 1047 Route des Dolines, 06560, Valbonne, Sophia-Antipolis, France

    Yacine Benyoucef

  4. Austrian Space Forum (OEWF), Sillufer 3a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Gernot Groemer

  5. Training and Assessment Research Group (TARG), University College of Southeast Norway, ((HSN) Box 4, 3199, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

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Del Mastro, A., Schlacht, I.L., Benyoucef, Y., Groemer, G., Nazir, S. (2018). Motigravity: A New VR System to Increase Performance and Safety in Space Operations Simulation and Rehabilitation Medicine. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60525-8_22

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