Audition and Vision in Virtual Reality.

Abstract

SRI International has completed the first six-month period of a program designed to provide critical information about the most effective use of visual and acoustic icons to improve intelligibility and comprehension of data representations in virtual environments. Major accomplishments during this period include configuring the virtual-reality (VR) system for conducting psychophysical experiments and performing initial target-detection studies, using visual and acoustic spatial-orientation cues. These pilot studies revealed technological and psychophysical issues that required us to modify and develop experimental protocols for conducting psychophysical studies in a virtual environment (VE).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 14, 1994
Accession Number
ADA298906

Entities

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Achromatic
  • Acoustic Arrays
  • Acoustic Signatures
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Grids
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Military Research
  • Pilot Studies
  • Psychology
  • Simulators
  • Target Detection
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.