Higher levels of immersion improve procedure memorization performance

Proceedings of the Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - The 15th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, ICAT, EuroVR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-128

  Bowman, D A ^a   Sowndararajan, A ^a   Ragan, E D ^a   Kopper, R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; CONCEPTUAL LEARNING; FIELD OF REGARD; FIELD OF VIEWS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MENTAL ACTIVITY; THREE COMPONENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84886828805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2312/EGVE/JVRC09/121-128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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