Investigating interaction in CAVE virtual environments

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-267

  Sutcliffe, Alistair ^a   Gault, Brian ^a   Fernando, Terence ^b   Tan, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour analysis; Interactive strategies; Usability evaluation; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

CAVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTIVE STRATEGIES; USABILITY EVALUATION; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33749624946     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 10730516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1165734.1165738     Document Type: Article

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