From: Thomas Schubert Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: Literature about cognition in VR? Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:01:52 -0800 Organization: SRI International Hi, sorry, I missed the original posting, but I want you to know that there are indeed some good articles on Coginition in VR. For a introduction in this field you might want to look at Carr, K. (ed.)(1995). Simulated and virtual realities: Elements of perception. London: Taylor & Francis. and Biocca, F., & Levy, M. R. (Eds.)(1995). Communication in the age of virtual reality. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum. In the last months, we worked on the sense of presence in virtual environments and its relations to fear of heights, and we found the following articles very useful: Prothero, J.D., Parker, D.E., Furness III, T.A., & Wells, M.J. (1995?). Towards a Robust, Quantitative Measure for Presence. Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle. Regan, E.C. & Price, K.R. (1994). The frequency of occurrence and severity of side-effects of immersion virtual reality. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. Vol 65 (6). S. 527-530. Slater, M., Lineakis, V., Usoh, M., & Kooper, R. Immersion, Presence, and Performance in Virtual Environments: An Experiment using Tri-Dimensional Chess. http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~bigfoot/vrpubs.html Slater, M., Usoh, M., & Steed, A. (1995). Taking Steps: The Influence of a Walking Technique on Presence in Virtual Reality. Department of Computer Science and London Parallel Applications Centre, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Especially the last two articles are based on work done by J. J. Gibson, so you might want to look at his book for a detailed analysis of human perception. Gibson, J.J. (1979) The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Let me know if you want further information. Thomas Schubert