The influence of avatar (self and character) animations on distance estimation, object interaction and locomotion in immersive virtual environments

Proceedings - APGV 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-44

  McManus, Erin A ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^a   Streuber, Stephan ^b   De La Rosa, Stephan ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^b   Mohler, Betty J ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head mounted displays; Immersive virtual environments; Perception; Virtual avatars

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; CHARACTER ANIMATION; CO-LOCATED; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING PHASE; OBJECT INTERACTIONS; STEPPING STONE; TASK EXECUTIONS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL AVATAR; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

ANIMATION; ESTIMATION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84855645704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077451.2077458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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