The wise cursor: Assisted selection in 3D serious games

Visual Computer

Volumn 29, Issue 6-8, 2013, Pages 795-804

  Moya, Sergio ^a   Grau, Sergi ^a   Tost, Dani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accessible user interfaces; Interactive selection; Navigation in virtual environments; Serious games

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D GRAPHICS; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; INTERACTIVE SELECTION; NAVIGATION IN VIRTUAL EN-VIRONMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS; USABILITY TESTS; VIRTUAL OBJECTS;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 84879508084     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-013-0831-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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