Navigation performance with a virtual auditory display: Effects of beacon sound, capture radius, and practice

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-278

  Walker, Bruce N ^a,b   Lindsay, Jeffrey ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SPEECH PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION;

NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WAYFINDING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STUDENT; VIRTUAL AUDITORY DISPLAY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745966449     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006777724507     Document Type: Article

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