Spatial learning and navigation using: A virtual verbal display

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Giudice, Nicholas A ^a   Bakdash, Jonathan Z ^b   Legge, Gordon E ^c   Roy, Rudrava ^c,d  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Navigation; Verbal learning; Virtual environments; Virtual verbal display; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MAPS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SEARCHING COMPUTERS; SPATIAL LEARNING; TARGET LOCATION; VERBAL INFORMATION; VERBAL LEARNING; VIRTUAL DISPLAYS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL VERBAL DISPLAY; VISUAL DISPLAY; VISUAL LEARNING; WAY-FINDING;

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NAVIGATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77955593968     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1658349.1658352     Document Type: Article

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