Is the user trained? Assessing performance and cognitive resource demands in the Virtusphere

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interface 2013, 3DUI 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-22

  Marsh, William E ^a   Hantel, Tim ^a   Zetzsche, Christoph ^a   Schill, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dual task paradigm; locomotion; training; Virtusphere; working memory

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RESOURCES; DUAL-TASKS; LOCOMOTION INTERFACES; MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE; TRAINING PROCEDURES; VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM; VIRTUSPHERE; WORKING MEMORY;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84884865602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2013.6550191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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