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Navigation modes in virtual environments: walking vs. joystick

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APGV '08: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1394281.1394321

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There is considerable evidence that people have difficulty maintaining orientation in virtual environments. This difficulty is usually attributed to poor idiothetic cues, such as the absence of proprioception and other sources of information provided by self locomotion. The lack of proprioceptive cues presents a strong argument against the use of a joystick interface, and the importance of full physical movement for navigation tasks has also recently been confirmed by Ruddle and Lessels [2006], who showed that subjects performing a navigational task were superior when they were allowed to walk freely rather than when they could only physically rotate themselves or only move virtually. Our study seeks to confirm the results of Ruddle and Lessels.

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Kelly, J. W., McNamara, T. P., Bodenheimer, B., Carr, T. H., and Rieser, J. J. 2008. Geometric cues used in the maintenance of orientation and in reorientation: Differential effects of rotational symmetry. In Review.

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Ruddle, R. A., and Lessels, S. 2006. For efficient navigation search, humans require full physical movement but not a rich visual scene. Psychological Science, 6, 460--465.

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Navigation modes in virtual environments: walking vs. joystick
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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APGV '08: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization

August 2008

209 pages

ISBN:9781595939814

DOI:10.1145/1394281

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Chakraborty SKane AGagnon HMcNamara TBodenheimer B(2024)Comparative Effectiveness of an Omnidirectional Treadmill versus Natural Walking for Navigating in Virtual EnvironmentsACM Symposium on Applied Perception 202410.1145/3675231.3675243(1-10)Online publication date: 30-Aug-2024
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Hanson SParis RAdams HBodenheimer B(2019)Improving Walking in Place Methods with Individualization and Deep Networks2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR.2019.8797751(367-376)Online publication date: Mar-2019
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