From: ohl@world.std.com (Oren H Levine)
Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: Literature about cognition in VR?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:53:34 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA


Gabriele Kusch (kusch@zfn.uni-bremen.de) wrote:

:    * How do orientation and navigation of people in VR work?

:    * How do people experience their own body, especially if there
:      is no representation of it in the system?

Mark Draper from the HIT Lab presented a paper at the Human Factors
Society meeting this year, based on his MS thesis:
"Exploring the Influence of a Virtual Body on Spatial Awareness"
I found the thesis on the Web at
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/draper/

Perhaps this will be a good starting point.

-Oren Levine 

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