Multiscale traveling: Crossing the boundary between space and scale

Virtual Reality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-115

  Zhang, Xiaolong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale; Navigation; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALE INTERACTIONS; TRAVEL SPEED; TRAVELING TECHNIQUES; USER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL SPACES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

NAVIGATION; USER INTERFACES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 67349238726     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0114-5     Document Type: Article

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