Throwing Versus Walking as Indicators Of Distance Perception In Similar Real And Virtual Environments

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-45

  Sahm, Cynthia S ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah H ^a   Thompson, William B ^b   Willemsen, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind walking; Distance perception; Experimentation; Head mounted displays; Measurement; Performance; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899013186     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1048687.1048690     Document Type: Article

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