Wayfinding strategies and behaviors in large virtual worlds
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Worldlets—3D thumbnails for wayfinding in virtual environments
Proceedings of the 10th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
Wayfinding in Virtual Environments Using an Interactive Spatial Cognitive Map
IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Magallanes: 3D navigation for everybody
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australia and Southeast Asia
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Navigating in a three dimensional (3D) virtual environment is difficult mainly because of limited navigational information that can only offer a screen-size visualization and low level imitation of other human senses. To address this problem, studies on various methods of navigation aid have been carried out. The navigation aid described in this paper was designed by applying the topic map technique, a semantic Web building technology, to a 3D virtual environment. A topic map builds a semantic link map, because it defines the link relations between topics. In the navigation aid's utilization experiment, in which the above mentioned linkage map was applied, looking for represented objects in detail, rather than looking for highly represented objects, was shown to be helpful in navigation. The provision of knowledge in and around the topic was confirmed to be effective for users' object selection during navigation under an unclear state of the object to be pursued.