Unlimited Walking: One Small Step for a Man

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Abstract

Real walking provides the most basic and intuitive form of locomotion for humans, allowing effective exploration of most existing environments. Walking per se is a tremendous evolutional achievement, considering that more than 50 muscles or muscle groups have to be temporally and spatially synchronized in the apparently simple task to shift weight from one foot to the other in a repetitive forward progression [1]. While continuously updating and balancing the high amount of instability in the locomotor system, humans collect and process information about their self-motion from a variety of senses, always validating external sensory information by setting them in relation to the stability of the overall system. The result is a highly accurate and sophisticated means for humans to explore nearly any environment. In fact, walking proved to be the preferred means of locomotion for humans in most known environments, as illustrated by men walking on the moon or the hopes to generate gravitation on space stations that will allow more natural means of moving (see Chap.  1).

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Cognitive Task Virtual World Spatial Task Verbal Task Curvature Gain 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, Department of InformaticsUniversität HamburgHamburgGermany

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