The role of attention for visual perception in desktop virtual reality environments

2009-08-09
Karacan, Hacer
Çağıltay, Kürşat
Virtual Reality Environments (VRE) is relatively new types of human-computer interaction interfaces in which users perceive and act in a 3D world. Researchers use it both as a tool and as an experimental area for their studies. In this study, a desktop VRE was created and used to explore the role of attention for visual perception of 60 university students who participated to the study. The findings showed that configurational knowledge can be attained in desktop VRE. Furthermore, it is found that visual attention has a significant role on forming cognitive maps since the incidental formation of a cognitive map seems to be not possible on the basis of our results.
15th Americas Conference on Information Systems , AMCIS (2009)

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Citation Formats
H. Karacan and K. Çağıltay, “The role of attention for visual perception in desktop virtual reality environments,” San Francisco, United States, 2009, vol. 3, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84870809721&origin=inward.