How does presentation method and measurement protocol affect distance estimation in real and virtual environments?

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Grechkin, Timofey Y ^a   Nguyen, Tien Dat ^a   Plumert, Jodie M ^a   Cremer, James F ^a   Kearney, Joseph K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Egocentric depth perception; Head mounted displays; Large screen immersive displays; Perception; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE ESTIMATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMMERSIVE; LARGE-SCREEN IMMERSIVE DISPLAYS; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; SIMILAR DEGREE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUAL PRESENTATION;

AUGMENTED REALITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ESTIMATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 77955214779     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1823738.1823744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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