A visual tool for tracing users' behavior in virtual environments

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 40-47

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Ieronutti, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evaluation tools; Users' flow; Virtual environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES; EVALUATION TOOL; LOCATION-AWARE; NAVIGATION PROBLEM; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SINGLE USERS; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USERS' FLOW;

DATA VISUALIZATION; MOBILE DEVICES; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84876562562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/989863.989868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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