Comparison of path visualizations and cognitive measures relative to travel technique in a virtual environment

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 694-705

  Zanbaka, Catherine A ^a,b,d   Lok, Benjamin C ^a,c,e   Babu, Sabarish V ^a,b   Ulinski, Amy C ^a,b,d   Hodges, Larry F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Information visualization; Navigation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY; CROOK'S CONDENSATION; PATH VISUALIZATION; TRAVEL TECHNIQUES;

EVALUATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAVEL; VISION;

COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA DISPLAY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOCOMOTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27644437556     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.92     Document Type: Article

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