The effect of the configuration and the interior design of a virtual weightless space station on human spatial orientation

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 56, Issue 9-12, 2005, Pages 1005-1016

  Aoki, Hirofumi ^a,b   Ohno, Ryuzo ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Takao ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY (HMD); HUMAN SPATIAL ORIENTATION; ROTATIONAL INERTIA; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

SPACE STATIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOENGINEERING; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FURNITURE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPACECRAFT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 16344373618     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.01.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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