Title :
Navigation with auditory cues in a virtual environment
Author :
Lokki, Tapio ; Gröhn, Matti
Author_Institution :
Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
The authors use 3D sound to help navigate an immersive virtual environment and report results of user tests obtained with a game-like application. The results show that auditory cues help in navigation, and auditory navigation is possible even without any visual feedback. The best performance is obtained in audiovisual navigation where auditory cues indicate the approximate direction and visual cues help in the final approach.
Keywords :
audio signal processing; audio user interfaces; audio-visual systems; auditory displays; virtual reality; 3D sound; audiovisual navigation; auditory cues; auditory navigation; game-like application; immersive virtual environment; Navigation; Proteins; Sampling methods; Testing; Turning; Virtual environment; 3D sound; Auditory navigation; audio-visual; virtual environments;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2005.33
