Desktop-VR system for preflight 3D navigation training

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 63, Issue 7-10, 2008, Pages 841-847

  Aoki, Hirofumi ^a   Oman, Charles M ^a   Buckland, Daniel A ^a   Natapoff, Alan ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency egress; Navigation; Spatial orientation; Training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE STATIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3-D ARCHITECTURE; 3-D NAVIGATION; EGRESS TIME; EMERGENCY EGRESS; GAMEPAD; HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY (HMD); IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VR; INPUT DEVICES; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION (SO); TOUCH PAD; VIRTUAL REALITY (VR); VR SYSTEMS;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 48549099119     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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