A Natural Locomotion Virtual Environment Testbed

Abstract

This research, originally scoped for three years, was to test hypotheses about memory and sensory modalities; specifically, does a walk-around Virtual Reality interface improve performance in memory and other tasks when compared other interfaces? The first year of the grant was spent designing, engineering, and debugging an infrastructure for a wireless virtual reality system that allowed a large, free-range full body interface, and a framework for running experiments using this apparatus.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 2006
Accession Number
ADA451479

Entities

People

  • Randy F. Pausch

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Debugging
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Haptics
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Hypotheses
  • Infrastructure
  • Locomotion
  • Military Research
  • Robots
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Training
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Psychology

Readers

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