Design and evaluation of navigation techniques for multiscale virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 175-182

  Kopper, Regis ^a   Ni, Tao ^b   Bowman, Doug A ^b   Pinho, Marcio ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Interaction techniques; Levels of scale; Multiscale virtual environments; Navigation; Usability evaluation; Wayfinding aids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTISCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; TASK COMPLETION; USABILITY EVALUATION; WAYFINDING AIDS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750103964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2006.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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