The Relative Contributions of Stereo, Lighting, and Background Scenes in Promoting 3D Depth Visualization

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 214-242

  Hubona, Geoffrey S ^a   Wheeler, Philip N ^b   Shirah, Gregory W ^c   Brandt, Matthew ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Appnet Inc   (United States)

^c NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D user interfaces; cue theory; depth perception; Experimentation; Human Factors; shadows; stereoscopic viewing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000501554     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/329693.329695     Document Type: Article

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