Navigation aids for multi-floor virtual buildings: A comparative evaluation of two approaches

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 227-235

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Venkataraman, Subramanian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Multi floor virtual buildings; Navigation aids

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MULTI-FLOOR VIRTUAL BUILDINGS; NAVIGATION AIDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547412010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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