Relation of physical form to spatial knowledge in large-scale virtual environments

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 397-417

  Cubukcu, Ebru ^a   Nasar, Jack L ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Navigation; Spatial knowledge; Virtual environments; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

EID: 18744410933     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916504269748     Document Type: Article

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