Can i pass?: Using affordances to measure perceived size in virtual environments

Proceedings - APGV 2010: Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-64

  Geuss, Michael ^a   Stefanucci, Jeanine ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah ^a   Thompson, William B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Human perception and performance; Perception and action; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; DISPLAY SYSTEM; GEOMETRIC SCALE; HUMAN PERCEPTION; PASSABILITY; PERCEPTION AND ACTION; PERCEPTUAL FIDELITY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

FACE RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77956240617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836248.1836259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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