TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating route and survey learning in complex virtual environments
T2 - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
AU - Luo, Zhiqiang
AU - Wickens, Christopher D.
AU - Duh, Henry Been Lirn
AU - Chen, I. Ming
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study aimed to explore how a three-dimensional (3D) map affects the acquisition of survey knowledge in complex virtual environments (VEs). Subject navigated in virtual and real subway stations, where the virtual station was augmented with either a 3D floor map, a 3D building map, or neither. After subject's navigation in the station, they made the judgment of spatial relative directions between objects. The analyses of response time showed that participants responded faster when they were assisted by the 3D floor or building map than without a map aid in virtual stations. There was no significant difference between survey knowledge acquired in the virtual station augmented with the 3D floor or building map and in the real station. Participants with the 3D floor map performed best in spatial judgments. Implications of these findings to a 3D map design were discussed.
AB - This study aimed to explore how a three-dimensional (3D) map affects the acquisition of survey knowledge in complex virtual environments (VEs). Subject navigated in virtual and real subway stations, where the virtual station was augmented with either a 3D floor map, a 3D building map, or neither. After subject's navigation in the station, they made the judgment of spatial relative directions between objects. The analyses of response time showed that participants responded faster when they were assisted by the 3D floor or building map than without a map aid in virtual stations. There was no significant difference between survey knowledge acquired in the virtual station augmented with the 3D floor or building map and in the real station. Participants with the 3D floor map performed best in spatial judgments. Implications of these findings to a 3D map design were discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953103673&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1518/107118110X12829370499367
DO - 10.1518/107118110X12829370499367
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:79953103673
SN - 9781617820885
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 2393
EP - 2397
BT - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -