Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

3DUI - IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-10

  Smith, Shamus P ^a   Du'Mont, Sam ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer games; Evaluation; Navigation tasks; User experience; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; EVALUATION; NAVIGATION TASKS; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

GAME THEORY; NAVIGATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 70349321622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2009.4811198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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