Paper Info
Title
Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life.
Abstract
Mobile navigation apps are among the most used mobile applications and are often used as a baseline to evaluate new mobile navigation technologies in field studies. As field studies often introduce external factors that are hard to control for, we investigate how pedestrian navigation methods can be evaluated in virtual reality (VR). We present a study comparing navigation methods in real life (RL) and VR to evaluate if VR environments are a viable alternative to RL environments when it comes to testing these. In a series of studies, participants navigated a real and a virtual environment using a paper map and a navigation app on a smartphone. We measured the differences in navigation performance, task load and spatial knowledge acquisition between RL and VR. From these we formulate guidelines for the improvement of pedestrian navigation systems in VR like improved legibility for small screen devices. We furthermore discuss appropriate low-cost and low-space VR-locomotion techniques and discuss more controllable locomotion techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3340555.3353741
ICMI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual Reality, Navigation, Multi-Modal Interaction
Virtual reality,Computer science,Pedestrian navigation,Human–computer interaction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6860-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
18
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gian-Luca Savino102.37
Niklas Emanuel200.34
Steven Kowalzik300.34
Felix Kroll400.34
Marvin C. Lange500.34
Matthis Laudan600.34
Rieke Leder700.34
Zhanhua Liang800.34
Dayana Markhabayeva900.34
Martin Schmeißer1000.34
Nicolai Schütz1100.34
Carolin Stellmacher1201.35
Zihe Xu1300.68
Kerstin Bub1400.34
Thorsten Kluss1501.69
Jaime Leonardo Maldonado Cañón1601.35
Ernst Kruijff1756449.76
Johannes Schöning18114587.96