Title :
Improved Redirection with Distractors: A large-scale-real-walking locomotion interface and its effect on navigation in virtual environments
Author :
Peck, Tabitha C. ; Fuchs, Henry ; Whitton, Mary C.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
Users in virtual environments often find navigation more difficult than in the real world. Our new locomotion interface, Improved Redirection with Distractors (IRD), enables users to walk in larger-than-tracked space VEs without predefined waypoints. We compared IRD to the current best interface, really walking, by conducting a user study measuring navigational ability. Our results show that IRD users can really walk through VEs that are larger than the tracked space and can point to targets and complete maps of VEs no worse than when really walking.
Keywords :
computerised navigation; user interfaces; virtual reality; improved redirection-with-distractors interface; locomotion interface; navigation effect; real walking interface; virtual environments; Displays; Feedback; Image reconstruction; Internet; Mobile computing; Navigation; Solid modeling; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Visualization; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems-Artificial-augmented, and virtual realities; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques-Interaction techniques; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Virtual Reality;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality Conference (VR), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waltham, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6237-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1087-8270
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2010.5444816
