The design and evaluation of a large-scale real-walking locomotion interface

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1053-1067

  Peck, Tabitha C ^a   Fuchs, Henry ^b   Whitton, Mary C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

distractors; locomotion; navigation; redirection; Virtual reality; wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; DESIGN CHALLENGES; DISTRACTORS; EVALUATION STUDY; JOY-STICK INTERFACES; LOCOMOTION INTERFACES; REDIRECTION; USER STUDY; WALKING-IN-PLACE; WAY-FINDING;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 84861455596     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.289     Document Type: Article

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