An investigation of visual cues used to create and support frames of reference and visual search tasks in desktop virtual environments

Virtual Reality

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 140-150

  Morar, S S ^a   Macredie, R D ^a   Cribbin, T ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depth Perception; Desktop Virtual Environments; Frames of Reference; Motion Parallax; Visual Depth Cues; Visual Search Tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144492733     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100550200015     Document Type: Article

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