Use of auditory cues for wayfinding assistance in virtual environment - Music aids route decision

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 171-174

  Dodiya, Janki ^a   Alexandrov, Vassil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory navigation; Sound and music perception; Virtual Environments; Wayfinding aids

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LANDMARKS; AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY NAVIGATION; COGNITIVE LOADS; MUSICAL SOUNDS; NAVIGATION AIDS; SOUND AND MUSIC PERCEPTION; USER EXPERIENCES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; WAYFINDING AIDS; WAYFINDING ASSISTANCES; WORK IN PROGRESS;

NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION CHARTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 63749127032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1450579.1450615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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