The effects of higher levels of immersion on procedure memorization performance and implications for educational virtual environments

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 527-543

  Ragan, Eric D ^a   Sowndararajan, Ajith ^a   Kopper, Regis ^a   Bowman, Douga ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; CONCEPTUAL LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FIELD OF REGARD; FIELD OF VIEWS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; MENTAL ACTIVITY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHYSICAL FIELD; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; THREE COMPONENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79951653539     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres_a_00016     Document Type: Article

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