Designing an immersive virtual reality interface for layout planning

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 425-430

  Korves, B ^a   Loftus, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER MONITORS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PLANNING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IMMERSIVE SYSTEM; LAYOUT DESIGN FLAWS; LAYOUT PLANNING;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0034317344     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(00)00717-2     Document Type: Article

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