dc.contributor.author |
Masud, Md. Raihan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-08-05T00:57:46Z |
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dc.date.available |
2011-08-05T00:57:46Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011-06 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11476 |
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dc.description |
xi, 51 p. : ill. (some col.) |
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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. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Committee in charge: Dr. Stephen Fickas, Chairperson;
Dr. Christopher Wilson, Member |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, M.S., 2011; |
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dc.subject |
Computer science |
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dc.subject |
Error recovery |
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dc.subject |
Human centric |
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dc.subject |
Route following |
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dc.subject |
Virtual environments |
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dc.subject |
Virtual reality |
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dc.title |
Virtual Environments for Human Centric Research |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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