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

fYear

2010

fDate

20-24 March 2010

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

38

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Conference (VR), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

ISSN

1087-8270

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6237-7

Electronic_ISBN

1087-8270

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2010.5444816

Filename

5444816