Immersion factors affecting perception and behaviour in a virtual reality power wheelchair simulator

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-12

  Alshaer, Abdulaziz ^a   Regenbrecht, Holger ^a   O'Hare, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Affordance; Human factors; Navigation; Sense of presence; Simulation; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISPLAY DEVICES; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NAVIGATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIMULATORS; WHEELCHAIRS;

AFFORDANCES; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; DRIVING SIMULATOR; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMMERSION FACTORS; SENSE OF PRESENCES; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIELD OF VIEW; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY V MONITOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POWERED WHEELCHAIR; SELF AVATAR PRESENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY; ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; MIDDLE AGED; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WHEELCHAIR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION, SPATIAL; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHEELCHAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84969677264     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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