Virtual Environments for Human Centric Research
| dc.contributor.author | Masud, Md. Raihan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-05T00:57:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-08-05T00:57:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-06 | |
| dc.description | xi, 51 p. : ill. (some col.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Conducting field studies for human centric research often demands a significant amount of time and effort. Virtual Environments (VE) can be a potential alternative to reduce such requirements and help scale the field studies. However, we may experience a performance difference between (1) a virtual trial, and (2) a field trial of the same study. To learn under what circumstances a VE can successfully replace a field study and when it fails, this thesis describes a route-following experiment that compares the participants' performance between a simple VE and a field setup. The experiment results unveil that there is a significant difference in performance between a physical and a virtual setup for more challenging navigational tasks, whereas no significant difference is observed for simpler tasks. This finding encourages us to replace a less challenging field study with a simple VE, and explore the possibilities for a complex one. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Committee in charge: Dr. Stephen Fickas, Chairperson; Dr. Christopher Wilson, Member | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/11476 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, M.S., 2011; | |
| dc.subject | Computer science | en_US |
| dc.subject | Error recovery | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human centric | en_US |
| dc.subject | Route following | en_US |
| dc.subject | Virtual environments | en_US |
| dc.subject | Virtual reality | |
| dc.title | Virtual Environments for Human Centric Research | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |