Improvements in Visually Directed Walking in Virtual Environments Cannot be Explained by Changes in Gait Alone
J. Adam Jones, J. Edward Swan II, Gurjot Singh, Sujan Reddy, Kenneth Moser, Chunya Hua, and Stephen R. Ellis. Improvements in Visually Directed Walking in Virtual Environments Cannot be Explained by Changes in Gait Alone. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2012), pp. 11–16, August 2012. DOI: 10.1145/2338676.2338679.
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Abstract
A previous study indicated that peripheral visual information strongly affects the judgment of egocentric distances for users of immersive virtual environments. The experiment described in this document aimed to investigate if these effects could be explained in terms of changes in gait caused by visual information in the extreme periphery. Three conditions with varying degrees of peripheral occlusion were tested and participants' walking characteristics measured. The results indicate that the improvements in distance judgments, as peripheral information increases, can only partially be explained in terms of gait modification, but likely involve both changes in the characteristics of gait and other spatial or movement parameters.
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BibTeX
@InProceedings{SAP12-ivdw,
author = {J. Adam Jones and J. Edward {Swan~II} and Gurjot Singh and
Sujan Reddy and Kenneth Moser and Chunya Hua and Stephen R. Ellis},
title = {Improvements in Visually Directed Walking in Virtual Environments
Cannot be Explained by Changes in Gait Alone},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception
(SAP 2012)},
year = 2012,
location = {Los Angeles, California},
date = {August 3--4},
month = {August},
pages = {11--16},
note = {DOI: <a target="_blank"
href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2338676.2338679">10.1145/2338676.2338679</a>.}
abstract = {
A previous study indicated that peripheral visual information strongly
affects the judgment of egocentric distances for users of immersive
virtual environments. The experiment described in this document aimed
to investigate if these effects could be explained in terms of changes
in gait caused by visual information in the extreme periphery. Three
conditions with varying degrees of peripheral occlusion were tested
and participants' walking characteristics measured. The results
indicate that the improvements in distance judgments, as peripheral
information increases, can only partially be explained in terms of
gait modification, but likely involve both changes in the
characteristics of gait and other spatial or movement parameters.
},
}