The influence of eye height and avatars on egocentric distance estimates in immersive virtual environments

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-74

  Leyrer, Markus ^a   Linkenaugery, Sally A ^a   Bülthoffz, Heinrich H ^a   Kloosx, Uwe ^b   Mohler, Betty ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b REUTLINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avatars; Distance perception; Eye height; Immersive virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; AVATARS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE HEIGHT; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESEARCH RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL ROOMS;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; ESTIMATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84855680583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077451.2077464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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