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Developing effective navigation techniques in virtual 3D environments

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Sabine Volbracht,

Gitta DomikAuthors Info & Claims

EG VE'00: Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments

Pages 55 - 64

Published: 01 June 2000 Publication History

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As a result of the increasing use of three-dimensional environments and of frequently inefficient possibilities for navigation, a fundamental understanding of navigation is becoming ever more important, both for users as well as for developers of three-dimensional environments. To promote this understanding a rigorous model for navigation was developed. The navigation model contains the relevant factors of influence and determines quality criteria for an efficient navigation. The model is used in a practical study. In this study effective navigation techniques in the application field of teaching/learning environments for children of elementary schools are implemented and evaluated. The simple control of relevant parameters, made possible by the model, can be transferred easily to other ranges of application.

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Developing effective navigation techniques in virtual 3D environments
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
2. Human-centered computing

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EG VE'00: Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments

June 2000

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Forte JVela FRodríguez P(2019)User experience problems in immersive virtual environmentsProceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3335595.3336288(1-4)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2019
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Sas CO'Hare GReilly R(2005)Virtual environment trajectory analysisFuture Generation Computer Systems10.5555/1088377.170827821:7(1157-1166)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1088377.1708278
Tyndiuk FLespinet-Najib VThomas GSchlick Cvan Zijl LMarais P(2004)Impact of large displays on virtual reality task performanceProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa10.1145/1029949.1029960(61-65)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1029949.1029960

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