Brasilia, Brazil, 29 March - 3 April 1999
Virtual Space Navigation
Ruth Conroy and Bill Hillier
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
(Torrington Place Site)
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
England
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This paper presents an experiment in which volunteers navigated immersively
through a virtual 3D simulation of the Millbank (London) Building of the
Tate Gallery. The results of this experiment were compared to pedestrian
movement observations in the real Tate Gallery. The simulation consisted
of the ground floor of the building, and contained no pictures or other
visual stimuli such as textures or landmarks. Twenty five subjects participated
in the experiment. During this exercise each subject's exact location
within the virtual building and the vector orientation of the head mounted
display or "general direction of gaze", were sampled ten times
per second. This data was compared to movement observations for pedestrians
during the first ten minutes of their visit, after entering the real Tate
Gallery. These two data sets were compared and found to be statistically
similar.
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