Quantifying the benefits of immersion for procedural training

IPT/EDT 2008 - Immersive Projection Technologies/Emerging Display Technologies Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sowndararajan, Ajith ^a   Wang, Rongrong ^a   Bowman, Doug A ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersion; Memory; Procedural training; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCEDURES; IMMERSION; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITIES; L-SHAPED; MEMORY; MENTAL ACTIVITIES; MENTAL MAPS; MOTOR ACTIVITIES; PROCEDURAL TRAINING; PROJECTION DISPLAYS; SPATIAL ACTIVITIES; SPATIAL CUES; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 59249083341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394669.1394672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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