Design and display of enhancing information in desktop information-rich virtual environments: Challenges and techniques

Virtual Reality

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-54

  Polys, Nicholas F ^a   Bowman, Doug A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desktop virtual environments; Information psychophysics; Information rich virtual environments; Multiple view architectures; Visualization design

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144480538     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-004-0134-0     Document Type: Article

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