Using immersive virtual reality to evaluate pedestrian street crossing decisions at a roundabout

Proceedings - APGV 2009: Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-40

  Wu, Haojie ^a   Ashmead, Daniel H ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Space perception; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DECISION; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; MOVING VEHICLES; REAL WORLD DATA; SPACE PERCEPTION; STREET CROSSING; TRAFFIC PATTERN; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

INTERSECTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE);

EID: 70450175586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1620993.1621001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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