Limitations of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Heino, Todd ^a   Cliburn, Daniel ^a   Rilea, Stacy ^a   Cooper, Joseph ^a   Tachkov, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; NAVIGATION AIDS; NAVIGATION TASKS; TARGET LOCATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77951762378     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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