Ruddle, RA, Howes, A, Payne, SJ et al. (1 more author) (2000) Effects of hyperlinks on navigation in virtual environments. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 53 (4). 551 - 581. ISSN 1071-5819
Abstract
Hyperlinks introduce discontinuities of movement to 3-D virtual environments (VEs). Nine independent attributes of hyperlinks are defined and their likely effects on navigation in VEs are discussed. Four experiments are described in which participants repeatedly navigated VEs that were either conventional (i.e. obeyed the laws of Euclidean space), or contained hyperlinks. Participants learned spatial knowledge slowly in both types of environment, echoing the findings of previous studies that used conventional VEs. The detrimental effects on participants' spatial knowledge of using hyperlinks for movement were reduced when a time-delay was introduced, but participants still developed less accurate knowledge than they did in the conventional VEs. Visual continuity had a greater influence on participants' rate of learning than continuity of movement, and participants were able to exploit hyperlinks that connected together disparate regions of a VE to reduce travel time.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2000, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Human Computer Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Institute for Computational and Systems Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2013 08:33 |
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2017 17:05 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.2000.0402 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1006/ijhc.2000.0402 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76425 |