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Effects of scene density and richness on traveled distance estimation in virtual environments

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Tien Dat Nguyen,

James F. Cremer,

Joseph K. Kearney,

Jodie M. PlumertAuthors Info & Claims

APGV '11: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Pages 83 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/2077451.2077466

Published: 27 August 2011 Publication History

Abstract

We conducted an experiment to examine the effects of scene density and richness on people's estimates of traveled distance. Participants wearing HMDs first experienced vision-only simulated self-motion over the distance of 65 meters in either a feature-dense scene (condition 1) or a sparse scene (condition 2), and then attempted to reproduce the same distance by physically walking with vision in a neutral virtual scene. We found that participants' estimates in the first condition were significantly shorter than those in the second condition. Furthermore, condition 1 estimates were significantly below the actual 65m travel distance, while condition 2 estimates did not differ significantly from 65m. The results suggest that scene feature density and richness affect traveled distance estimation.

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Lin CWoldegiorgis B(2015)Interaction and visual performance in stereoscopic displays: A reviewJournal of the Society for Information Display10.1002/jsid.37823:7(319-332)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2015
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Lin CWoldegiorgis BCaesaron D(2015)Distance estimation of near‐field visual objects in stereoscopic displaysJournal of the Society for Information Display10.1002/jsid.26922:7(370-379)Online publication date: 29-Jan-2015
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Index Terms

Effects of scene density and richness on traveled distance estimation in virtual environments
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Psychology
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality

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APGV '11: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

August 2011

128 pages

ISBN:9781450308892

DOI:10.1145/2077451

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Trinity College Dublin
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Université Toulouse 3
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University of Washington
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Universidad de Zaragoza
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University of Tübingen

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Woldegiorgis BLin CLiang W(2018)Impact of parallax and interpupillary distance on size judgment performances of virtual objects in stereoscopic displaysErgonomics10.1080/00140139.2018.1526328(1-12)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2018
https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1526328
Lin CWoldegiorgis B(2015)Interaction and visual performance in stereoscopic displays: A reviewJournal of the Society for Information Display10.1002/jsid.37823:7(319-332)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2015
https://doi.org/10.1002/jsid.378
Lin CWoldegiorgis BCaesaron D(2015)Distance estimation of near‐field visual objects in stereoscopic displaysJournal of the Society for Information Display10.1002/jsid.26922:7(370-379)Online publication date: 29-Jan-2015
https://doi.org/10.1002/jsid.269

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