Analysis of user activity in an engineering design task during the evaluation of an immersive stereoscopic design system

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Robinson, Graham ^a   Day, Phil N ^a   Ritchie, James M ^a   Dewar, Rick G ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; VISUALIZATION;

CABLE HARNESS; IMMERSIVE STEREOSCOPIC DESIGN SYSTEM; SEQUENCE BREAKS; USER ACTIVITY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751350668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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