Spatial navigation in large-scale virtual environments: Gender differences in survey tasks

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1643-1667

  Castelli, Lorys ^a   Latini Corazzini, Luca ^a   Geminiani, Giuliano Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer simulated virtual environments; Gender differences; Route survey knowledge; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER-SIMULATED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; ROUTE/SURVEY KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 42249098532     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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