Head tracking latency in virtual environments revisited: Do users with multiple sclerosis notice latency less?

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1630-1636

  Samaraweera, Gayani ^a   Guo, Rongkai ^b   Quarles, John ^a  

^a University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Latency; Multiple Sclerosis; Rehabilitation; User Studies; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TIME DELAY;

DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; LATENCY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PERCEPTION THRESHOLDS; SIMULATOR SICKNESS; USER PERFORMANCE; USER STUDY; VIRTUAL REHABILITATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84964344440     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2443783     Document Type: Article

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