Comparing decision-making and control for learning a virtual environment: Backseat drivers learn where they are going

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2117-2121

  Bakdash, Jonathan Z ^a   Linkenauger, Sally A ^a   Itt, Dennis Proff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frames of reference; Navigation; Spatial updating; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NAVIGATION; BACKSEAT; CRITICAL COMPONENT; FRAMES OF REFERENCE; INTERACTIVITY; MAIN COMPONENT; PASSIVE NAVIGATION; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL LAYOUT; SPATIAL UPDATING; VIRTUAL CITIES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ERGONOMICS; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 70350605332     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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