TY - JOUR
T1 - Perception of approaching and retreating floor-projected shapes in a large, immersive, multimedia learning environment
AU - Dolgov, Igor
AU - Birchfield, David A.
AU - McBeath, Michael
AU - Thornburg, Harvey
AU - Todd, Christopher G.
PY - 2009/12/28
Y1 - 2009/12/28
N2 - Perception of floor-projected moving geometric shapes was examined in the context of the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory (SMALLab), an immersive, mixed-reality learning environment. As predicted, the projected destinations of shapes which retreated in depth (proximal origin) were judged significantly less accurately than those that approached (distal origin). Participants maintained similar magnitudes of error throughout the session, and no effect of practice was observed. Shape perception in an immersive multimedia environment is comparable to the real world. One may conclude that systematic exploration of basic psychological phenomena in novel mediated environments is integral to an understanding of human behavior in novel human-computer interaction architectures.
AB - Perception of floor-projected moving geometric shapes was examined in the context of the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory (SMALLab), an immersive, mixed-reality learning environment. As predicted, the projected destinations of shapes which retreated in depth (proximal origin) were judged significantly less accurately than those that approached (distal origin). Participants maintained similar magnitudes of error throughout the session, and no effect of practice was observed. Shape perception in an immersive multimedia environment is comparable to the real world. One may conclude that systematic exploration of basic psychological phenomena in novel mediated environments is integral to an understanding of human behavior in novel human-computer interaction architectures.
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U2 - 10.2466/PMS.108.2.623-630
DO - 10.2466/PMS.108.2.623-630
M3 - Article
C2 - 19544967
AN - SCOPUS:67649853252
SN - 0031-5125
VL - 108
SP - 623
EP - 630
JO - Perceptual and motor skills
JF - Perceptual and motor skills
IS - 2
ER -