The impact of controller naturalness on spatial presence, gamer enjoyment, and perceived realism in a tennis simulation video game

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-324

  McGloin, Rory ^a   Farrar, Kirstie M ^a   Krcmar, Marina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; MENTAL MODEL; MOTION CAPTURING; NINTENDO WII; VIDEO GAME;

CONTROLLERS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80555146759     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/PRES_a_00053     Document Type: Article

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