Virtual guiding avatar: An effective procedure to reduce simulator sickness in virtual environments

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 719-726

  Lin, James J W ^a   Abi Rached, Habib ^a   Lahav, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar; Motion prediction; Prediction; Simulator sickness; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES; USER INTERFACES;

AVATAR; MOTION PREDICTION; PREDICTION; SIMULATOR SICKNESS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 4544250250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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