Development of Panorama Manifestation System and Its Comparison with Desk-Top System

Virtual Reality (VR) system is an effective experimental study tool within the areas of cognitive psychology, neurosciences and psychophysiology. In this study, a new VR system, called panorama manifestation (PM) system, was developed and it was compared with a regular desktop (DT) system for two experimental way finding tasks in terms of success rate (SR), completion time (CT), difficulty index (DI), recalling accuracy (RA), and confidence index (CI). Results showed that although participants had similar SRs and gave similar DIs with these two systems, participants in PM system had less CT, more accurate route recalling and more confidence in judgment. The results indicate that the proposed PM system had higher fidelity for some spatial task experiments and could provide more support for participants´ way finding tasks.