A comparison of the cognitive demands of navigating two- versus three-dimensional spatial database layouts

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-212

  Westerman, S J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Databases; Spatial ability; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SPATIAL DATABASE LAYOUTS;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA BASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0032005489     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398187251     Document Type: Article

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