Showing users the way: Signs in virtual worlds

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-132

  Cliburn, Daniel C ^a   Rilea, Stacy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Navigation; Signs; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAPS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION AIDS; PILOT STUDIES; SIGNS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL BUILDING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

OPTICAL PROJECTORS; SPHERES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MAPS;

EID: 50249094469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2008.4480763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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