Spatial Orientation in 3-D Desktop Displays: Using Rooms for Organizing Information

Human Factors

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 424-435

  Colle, Herbert A ^a   Reid, Gary B ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; USER INTERFACES;

SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0344236189     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.45.3.424.27257     Document Type: Article

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