Virtual-reality-based 3D navigation training for emergency egress from spacecraft

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 774-783

  Aoki, Hirofumi ^a   Oman, Charles M ^a   Natapoff, Alan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human navigation; Intra vehicular activity; Mental rotation; Perspective taking ability; Spatial ability test; Spatial orientation; Virtual reality training; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISIBILITY;

ADULT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORIENTATION; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPACE SIMULATION; TEACHING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34547930096     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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