The benefits of using a walking interface to navigate virtual environments

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ruddle, Roy A ^a   Lessels, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Navigation; Virtual reality; Visual fidelity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL DATA; COLLISION DETECTION; DESKTOP DISPLAYS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; LOCOMOTION; REAL-WORLD; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT; SEARCH TASKS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL FIDELITY;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 67949084901     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1502800.1502805     Document Type: Article

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