Calibration of Locomotion Resulting from Visual Motion in a Treadmill-Based Virtual Environment

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-

  Mohler, Betty J ^a   Thompson, William B ^a   Willemsen, Peter ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah H ^b   Pick, Herbert L ^b   Rieser, John J ^c  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human Factors; locomotion; Treadmill virtual environments; visual self motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349542971     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1227134.1227138     Document Type: Article

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