Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
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Emanuel, Niklas
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Kowalzik, Steven
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Kroll, Felix
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Lange, Marvin
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Laudan, Matthis
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Leder, Rieke
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Liang, Zhanhua
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Markhabayeva, Dayana
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Schmeißer, Martin
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Schütz, Nicolai
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Stellmacher, Carolin
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Xu, Zihe
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Bub, Kerstin
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Kluss, Thorsten
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Maldonado, Jaime
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Kruijff, Ernst
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Abstract
Mobile navigation apps are among the most used mobile applications and are often used as a baseline to evaluate new mobile navigation technologies in field studies. As field studies often introduce external factors that are hard to control for, we investigate how pedestrian navigation methods can be evaluated in virtual reality (VR). We present a study comparing navigation methods in real life (RL) and VR to evaluate if VR environments are a viable alternative to RL environments when it comes to testing these. In a series of studies, participants navigated a real and a virtual environment using a paper map and a navigation app on a smartphone. We measured the differences in navigation performance, task load and spatial knowledge acquisition between RL and VR.
Keywords
Virtual Reality
Navigation
Multi-Modal Interaction
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