Walking > walking-in-place > flying, in virtual environments

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 359-364

  Usoh, Martin ^a   Arthur, Kevin ^b   Whitton, Mary C ^b   Bastos, Rui ^b   Steed, Anthony ^a   Slater, Mel ^a   Brooks, Frederick P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Human factors; Locomotion; Neural networks; Presence; Virtual reality; Virtual walking; Visual cliff

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; WALKING AIDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DEGREE OF ASSOCIATION; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRESENCE; SENSE OF PRESENCES; SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS; VIRTUAL WALKING; VISUAL CLIFF; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 85009741066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/311535.311589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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