Title
Evaluation of wayfinding aids interface in virtual environment
Abstract
It is difficult for a navigator to find a way to a given target location in an unfamiliar environment. Often, wayfinding guidance such as an overview map is provided to assist the navigator. However, overview maps can only show survey knowledge at one particular scale, and cannot provide other kinds of spaital knowledge (e.g. procedure knowledge) or survey knowledge at different scales. In this study, we compared effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of three wayfinding aids, View-in-View Map (VVM), Animation Guide (AG) and Human-System Collaboration (HSC) in support of navigation in virtual reality. Our experiment results show that while an overview still outperforms AG and HSC, AG serves better for most people with ordinary spatial ability and people with superior spatial ability tends to perform better using HSC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_78
HCI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
animation guide,wayfinding guidance,ordinary spatial ability,human-system collaboration,superior spatial ability,spaital knowledge,overview map,virtual environment,procedure knowledge,wayfinding aids interface,wayfinding aid,survey knowledge,procedural knowledge,virtual reality
Unfamiliar environment,Virtual machine,Virtual reality,Computer science,Spatial cognition,Human–computer interaction,Animation,Spatial ability,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4551
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Wu11037.67
Wei Zhang210417.73
Bo Hu320.36
Xiaolong Zhang427821.91