Usability of 3D-sound for navigation in a constrained virtual environment

Audio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 494-509

  Gonot, Antoine ^a,b   Chateau, Noel ^a   Emerit, Marc ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b University of Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY DISPLAY; BEHAVIORAL DATA; COGNITIVE LOADS; SOUND SOURCE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84866510500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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