Evaluation of the cognitive effects of travel technique in complex real and virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 690-702

  Suma, Evan ^a   Finkelstein, Samantha ^a   Reid, Myra ^b   Babu, Sabarish ^c   Ulinski, Amy ^c   Hodges, Larry F ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Navigation; Real walking; Travel techniques; User study; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE EFFECTS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; INFORMATION GATHERING; REAL-WORLD; TRAVEL TECHNIQUES; USER STUDY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL TRAVEL; VIRTUAL TRAVEL TECHNIQUE; VIRTUAL WORLDS; INDEX TERMS; INDEX TERMS-VIRTUAL REALITY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77952741057     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.93     Document Type: Article

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