Paper Info
Title
CAVE and Fishtank Virtual-Reality Displays: A Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison
Abstract
We present the results from a qualitative and quantitative user study comparing fishtank virtual-reality (VR) and CAVE displays. The results of the qualitative study show that users preferred the fishtank VR display to the CAVE system for our scientific visualization application because of perceived higher resolution, brightness and crispness of imagery, and comfort of use. The results of the quantitative study show that users performed an abstract visual search task significantly more quickly and more accurately on the fishtank VR display system than in the CAVE. The same study also showed that visual context had no significant effect on task performance for either of the platforms. We suggest that fishtank VR displays are more effective than CAVEs for applications in which the task occurs outside the user's reference frame, the user views and manipulates the virtual world from the outside in, and the size of the virtual object that the user interacts with is smaller than the user's body and fits into the fishtank VR display. The results of both studies support this proposition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TVCG.2006.42
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual worlds,visual search,qualitative study,displays,visualization,diffusion tensor imaging,scientific visualization,indexing terms,brightness,head,cave,image resolution,data visualisation,virtual reality,display,reference frame,user interfaces
Virtual image,Object detection,Computer vision,Visual search,Data visualization,Virtual reality,Computer graphics (images),Visualization,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,User interface,Scientific visualization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
3
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
43
2.29
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Çağatay Demiralp11015.06
Cullen D. Jackson21338.44
David B. Karelitz3644.78
Song Zhang464253.89
David H. Laidlaw51781234.58