From mconway@microsoft.com Mon May 11 14:29:55 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA06162 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:29:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (qXUbHYH3Hz6V68F5eU11zDo510W/UB5E@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA25556 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:29:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail2-b.microsoft.com (mail2-b.microsoft.com [131.107.3.124]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA19825 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail2-b.microsoft.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2166.0) id ; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:29:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B266BA@red-msg-52.dns.microsoft.com> From: Matt Conway To: "3D UI List (E-mail)" <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Subject: FW: HMDs, CAVEs, COVEs, monitors, oh my! Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:29:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2166.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: RO -----Original Message----- From: bowman@cc.gatech.edu [mailto:bowman@cc.gatech.edu] Sent: Monday, May 11, 1998 11:27 AM To: Matt Conway Subject: Re: HMDs, CAVEs, COVEs, monitors, oh my! A while back, Matt Conway wrote: > As part of our Bib, can you give a reference to this result? I've heard this > stated too, and it seems to make sense intuitively, but I'd love to have a > reference. > > For example, in an application requiring a high degree of spatial > > awareness (such as design), it's been shown that the user understands > > the 3D space better when he can actually turn his head/body. If > > the user has to rotate his view virtually (with a mouse, spaceball, > > etc.) the space will be less 'real' and less understandable. Mark B. already answered this partially for me. The VRAIS 98 reference was one of the papers I had in mind. The other I think has also been mentioned by Jeff, in the recent (vol. 7, no. 2) Presence special issue. (Chance, Gaunet, Beall, & Loomis). They found that a real walking technique was the best way to encourage spatial awareness, and that physical turning was better than virtual turning (with a joystick or whatnot) in most situations. By the way, I think the annotated bibliography is a great idea, and I agree that Ken's large bib. is probably a good place to start. I've got a pretty good list of my own as well. Perhaps Matt could set up some way for list members to create new bibliography entries, and to categorize them in some way? -- Doug Bowman, Ph.D. Candidate College of Computing, GVU Center, Georgia Tech Room 388 CRB, (404) 894-5104 bowman@cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Doug.Bowman/