Seeing size and feeling weight: The size-weight illusion in natural and virtual reality

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-144

  Heineken, Edgar ^a   Schulte, Frank P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHODS; NATURAL REALITY; PERCEPTUAL CONDITIONS;

VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; SIZE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846605086     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007779598028     Document Type: Article

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