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Technology helps disabled learn to cope
Virtual reality helps users of wheelchairs navigate effectively The Associated Press
The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. — When 5-year-old Christopher Cobbs straps himself into the electric wheelchair, his mother doesn't worry that he'll get dirty plowing through the mud or injured in an accident.
With his small hand gripping the joystick and his eyes locked on tiny TV screens inside a headset, Christopher zoomes through a computer-generated world of virtual reality, learning to pilot a wheelchair the same way an astronaut learns to land the space shuttle.
"Put me on speed!" said Christopher, whose cerebral palsy keeps him from walking but not from playing Nintendo. "I want to be running through the mud!"
Christopher's mother, Nora Cobbs, drives him 135 miles from Grants Pass to practice on the virtual reality rig. He's one of a dozen children enrolled in a pilot program at the Oregon Research Institute, which is financed by a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
"On his real one, if he crashes, he'll get hurt," Cobbs said. "They should have thought of this a long time ago. It's going to help a lot of kids."
The military has been using virtual reality for years to teach jet pilots and tank drivers and even to stage mock battles. Now the technology is helping the disabled navigate and communicate more effectively.
"I think VR is going to be most powerful as a training device. What it will do is take us places we haven't been before, in ways we haven't been before," said Harry J. Murphy, director of the Center on Disabilities at California State University at Northridge.
Dean Inman, director of the Oregon
wheelchair training project, was frustrated in trying to teach children with cerebral palsy to drive motorized wheelchairs in the real world.
"For kids who have never moved around before independently, these are brand-new concepts," said Inman. "They don't understand poles, doors, hallways. They don't have any depth perception to speak of, because they've never moved themselves around and had to learn about environmental cues.
Inman had been tinkering with a computer world for wheelchairs projected on a normal TV screen when his wife came home from a conference on virtual reality and urged him to try it. The state Education Department gave him a three-year grant.
For about $30,000. Irman was able to buy the hardware and software to create the virtual reality world Christopher drives through. He sits on a motorized wheelchair that is mounted on a set of rollers
wheelchair athletes use to trap indoors, letting the wheels spin and giving a sense of movement beyond the video images.
When he bumps into something, the wheelchair jits to a stop. When he hits the mud he goes slower. When he runs off the edge of the world, he flies through the sky until he finds the ground again.
Designer Ken Loge is creating four different worlds of increasing difficulty, each with a pair of toes at the bottom of the screen. They go from a simple floor with black and white tiles, where there are no walls to bump into, to a street crossing with traffic lights and passing cars.
Though the computer images have a cartoon quality, Christopher said he feels as if he is in the real world.
"One of the questions is how real does it have to look for it to work?" Imman said. "It's just an idea whose time has come."
Candidate: men predisposed to be family head
The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It may be genetics that makes men rather than women the heads of households, argues a candidate who is leading in the quest for the Republican party endorsement for governor.
"More often than not in the traditional family, the man is the head of the house," said Allen Quist, 49, a farmer and father of 10 from the southern Minnesota town of St.Peter.
"The fact that there is a cross-cultural generalization suggests that there may be a genetic predisposition to that arrangement."
tion and gay rights.
Gov. Arne Carlson, a moderate Republican often at odds with the state party over social issues such as abortion and gay rights, called Quist's statements "reprehensible."
Carlson supporters say the controversy helps illustrate Quist's extreme philosophy on women's roles, abor-
The incumbent's backers also repeat an anecdote involving Quist's first wife, who died in a car accident when she was 61/2 months pregnant. The fetus was removed and displayed in the casket with his wife. Carlson supporters call the decision bizarre; Quist says it helped his family grieve a double loss.
Quist supporters were well-organized for precinct caucuses and say they have a 2-1 lead among delegates to the state convention, which begins June 15. Even Carlson supporters concede their candidate is far behind for party endorsement.
Men and women at the Capitol, Republicans and Democrats alike, are sporting buttons that say "genetically predisposed," with a red diagonal stripe across the phrase. Talkshow callers, columnists and couples are joking about which spouse is predisposed to do unsavory household tasks.
Quist's second wife, Julie, herself a Republican district chairwoman, tried last week to counter the criticism.
"In a traditional family, women do not think of themselves as inferior," she said. Men and women "can play different roles in the family without being inferior or superior."
Mrs. Quist, a feminist activist in the 1970s, married Quist in 1987, about six months after the death of his first wife. She said she had decided that liberalism was shallow and vacant.
Quist supporters say the controversy over Quist's comments, published in the weekly Twin Cities Reader, has helped their cause.
"My admiration for Allen Quist has greatly increased," said Cary Thompson of Mankato. "He can take the heat when what he says is politically incorrect."
Ira Reiss, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, said Quist's position on women's roles is a reaction to societal change.
"All the indicators are that the whole Western world is moving toward more gender equality and has been for the last 40 years." Reiss said. "He sees he's being pushed against the wall, His stand is sort of the Alamo of the 19th century view of men and women."
Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment, a conservative think tank in Minneapolis, said Quist's views are close to the mainstream.
"For better or worse, the (American elite) for the most part do not have a clue about the ideas and beliefs that run through the veins of great numbers of devoutly religious people in this country," he said.
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