Landmarks and time-pressure in virtual navigation: Towards designing gender-neutral virtual environments

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 33 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 60-67

  Gavrielidou, Elena ^a   Lamers, Maarten H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender; Landmarks; Navigation; Time pressure; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GENDER; LANDMARKS; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TIME-PRESSURE; TOPOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84885891711     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11743-5_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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