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Mental Representation of Spatial Structure in a Virtual Room-Sized Space

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Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence (ICAT 2006)

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To keep spatial awareness in virtual multilevel building, navigator should understand the spatial structure of space. Mental representation of spatial structure in a virtual cylindrical room was investigated in present experiments. Participants first observed two static views of space in which the two viewpoints were on the same vertical plane but with different heights, and then either judged the relative direction of object in the first experiment or egocentrically pointed out the direction of object in the second experiment. The results suggested that the orientation-dependent representation of spatial structure was created even though participants could learn the space from two different viewpoints lying on the vertical dimension of space.

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  1. Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Zhiqiang Luo & Henry Been-Lirn Duh

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD and CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian Cheok

  3. Upper Austria University of Applied Science and Digital Media, Hagenberg, Austria

    Michael Haller

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Rynson W. H. Lau

  5. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku-ku, 223-8522, Yokohama, Japan

    Hideo Saito

  6. College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 310032, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Ronghua Liang

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Luo, Z., Duh, H.BL. (2006). Mental Representation of Spatial Structure in a Virtual Room-Sized Space. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A., Haller, M., Lau, R.W.H., Saito, H., Liang, R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence. ICAT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941354_121

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