Evaluating distributed cognitive resources for wayfinding in a desktop virtual environment

3DUI 2006: IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3-10

  Smith, Shamus P ^a   Hart, Jonathan ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Cooperative evaluation; Distributed cognition; Navigation; Resource allocation; Virtual environment; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE LOADS; DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE RESOURCES; INFORMATION RESOURCES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33750827267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2006.60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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