Navigation help in 3D worlds: some empirical evidences on use of sound

Ardito, Carmelo; Costabile, Maria Francesca; Angeli, Antonella De; Pittarello, Fabio

doi:10.1007/s11042-006-0060-0

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“…Furthermore, case studies show that humans are also able to navigate in virtual acoustic environments based on (3D) auditory cues and beacon sounds [50,51,52,53]. However, fewer studies have investigated the effect of audiovisual presentation on navigation performance [54,55]. Gunther, Kazman, & MacGregor [54] investigated navigation in virtual environments that contained visual objects that could also produce 3D sound.…”

Section: Multisensory Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because the sound was often experienced without the corresponding visual object, multisensory interactions may have played no role in this study. Another study on the effects of multisensory presentation in virtual environments was conducted by Ardito, Costabile, De Angeli and Pittarello [55]. They presented participants with different pieces of classical music in each room of a virtual museum and found that such music could benefit users' navigation and memory performance, but only when users where informed in advance of the link between the music and the rooms.…”

Section: Multisensory Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating virtual mazes: The benefits of audiovisual landmarks

Werkhoven

Erp²,

Philippi

2014

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It has been shown that multisensory presentation can improve perception, attention, and object memory compared with unisensory presentation. Consequently, we expect that multisensory presentation of landmarks can improve spatial memory and navigation. In this study we tested the effect of visual, auditory and combined landmark presentations in virtual mazes on spatial memory and spatial navigation. Nineteen participants explored four different virtual mazes consisting of nodes with landmarks and corridors connecting them. Each maze was explored for 90 seconds. After each exploration, participants performed the following tasks in fixed order: 1) draw a map of the maze, 2) recall adjacent landmarks for three given landmarks, 3) place all landmarks on the map of the maze, and 4) find their way through the maze to locate five given landmarks in fixed order. Our study shows significant effects of multisensory versus unisensory landmarks for the maze drawing task, the adjacency task, and the wayfinding task. Our results suggest that audiovisual landmark presentations improve spatial memory and spatial navigation performance in virtual environments.

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Section: Multisensory Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multisensory Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating virtual mazes: The benefits of audiovisual landmarks

Werkhoven

Erp²,

Philippi

2014

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“…Different studies [2,4,22,31] have focused on sensory information quality within a VE quantifying it via participant's perception instead of only considering technical parameters. In the study presented here, the measure included about participants' perception of delay has shown that their awareness about the existence of mismatches in the sensory cues provided is not directly related with their influence in task performance and the sense of presence.…”

Section: Implications For Human-computer Interaction Designmentioning

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The role of mismatches in the sensory feedback provided to indicate selection within a virtual environment

Viciana-Abad

Reyes‐Lecuona

Poyade

et al. 2010

Multimed Tools Appl

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It is generally understood that virtual reality simulations have a high computational cost. Hence, they rarely can reduce completely all the incoherence within the cross-modal sensory outputs provided. The main research approaches to date have consisted in technically reducing possible mismatches, however minimal research has been conducted so as to analyse their influence on human capabilities. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide further insights to the designers of virtual reality about the negative influence of simulation lags and interesting design implications. To clearly show this, we have investigated the importance of coherent sensory feedback by incorporating time delays and spatial misalignments in the feedback provided by the simulation as a response to participant´s actions to mimic computationally expensive environments. We have also evaluated these misalignments considering two typical interaction setups. In particular, the sensory mismatches influence has been assessed in human factors, such as the sense of presence, task performance and delay perception. Our experimental results indicate that the closer the interaction conditions are to real configurations the higher the sensory requirements are regarding accuracy. The implications of this study offer the designer guidelines to prioritise the reduction of those mismatches in the sensory cues provided depending on the simulations goals.

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“…Ardito et al. () used a similar concept but the user was immersed in a VE. Both studies highlight that beneficial methods can be implemented to present useful information to users based on their location; information that may not be readily apparent normally.…”

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The Role of Contextual Info‐Marks in Navigating a Virtual Rural Environment

Rousell¹,

Jarvis²,

Brunsdon

2015

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Navigation is a task performed in both large and small scale environments. Landmarks within an environment are of great benefit to these navigational tasks, but in large rural environments such landmarks may be sparse. It has been shown that landmarks need not be purely visual and that a change in context for a feature can make it become a landmark against its surroundings (such as being provided with significant meaning). Such meaning could be added through personal experience or by informing the observer via some form of communication. To investigate the effects of providing such contextual information on navigational performance, experiments were conducted in a large rural virtual environment where the delivery method of the information was varied between onscreen and PDA display. Users were instructed to perform a route tracing navigation task. In some instances users were presented with textual information about specific locations within the environment which appeared when they were in the vicinity of the location. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed, with results indicating that although the actual performance in the task was not significantly improved, users felt that their performance was better and the task easier when they were presented with the contextual information.

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Navigation help in 3D worlds: some empirical evidences on use of sound

Cited by 13 publications

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Navigating virtual mazes: The benefits of audiovisual landmarks

Navigating virtual mazes: The benefits of audiovisual landmarks

The role of mismatches in the sensory feedback provided to indicate selection within a virtual environment

The Role of Contextual Info‐Marks in Navigating a Virtual Rural Environment

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