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A Methodology for the Evaluation of Travel Techniques for Immersive Virtual Environments

dc.contributor.author Bowman, Douglas A.
dc.contributor.author Koller, David
dc.contributor.author Hodges, Larry F.
dc.date.accessioned 2004-10-20T13:59:31Z
dc.date.available 2004-10-20T13:59:31Z
dc.date.issued 1998
dc.description.abstract We present a framework for the analysis and evaluation of travel, or viewpoint motion control, techniques for use in immersive virtual environments (VEs). The basic construct of this framework is a taxonomy of travel techniques, and we present a summary of three experiments mapping parts of the taxonomy to various performance measures. Since these initial experiments, we have expanded the framework to allow evaluation of not only the effects of different travel techniques, but also the effects of many outside factors simultaneously. Combining this expanded framework with the measurement of multiple response variables epitomizes the philosophy of testbed evaluation. This experimental philosophy leads to a deeper understanding of the interaction and the technique(s) in question, as well as to broadly generalizable results. We also present an example experiment within this expanded framework, which evaluates the user's ability to gather information while traveling through a virtual environment. Results indicate that, of the variables tested, the complexity of the environment is by far the most important factor. en
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/3441
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en
dc.relation.ispartofseries GVU Technical Report;GIT-GVU-98-04
dc.subject Virtual environments en
dc.subject Interaction techniques en
dc.subject Evaluation en
dc.subject Information gathering en
dc.title A Methodology for the Evaluation of Travel Techniques for Immersive Virtual Environments en
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