Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Worlds

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 45-46

  Darken, Rudolph P ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive maps; environmental design; navigation; spatial orientation; virtual reality; Virtual worlds; way finding

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MAPS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE MAPS; DESIGN AND BUILD; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DESIGN-PROCESS; LARGE-SCALES; REAL-WORLD; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WAY FINDING; ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN; LARGE-SCALE VIRTUAL WORLDS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WAYFINDING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0029192165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/223355.223419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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