Integrating Vestibular Displays for VE and Airborne Applications

Authors:
Jeffrey D. Cress;Lawrence J. Hettinger;James A. Cunningham;Gary E. Riccio;Michael W. Haas;Grant R. McMillan
Affiliations:
-;-;-;-;-;-
Venue:
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Year:
1997

Citing 5
Cited 0

Telepresence

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Premier issue
Visually induced motion sickness in virtual environments

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges

Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges
Haptic Specification of Environmental Events: Implications for the Design of Adaptive, Virtual Interfaces

VRAIS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS 96)
An introduction of a direct vestibular display into a virtual environment

VRAIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '97)

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The design of effective human-machine interfaces is one of the more challenging and exciting issues facing engineers today. Many virtual environment (VE) designers approach this problem by examining how humans interact with their natural environment. In essence, they attempt to mimic the various methods that humans use to gather information via the sensory modalities. The intent of this approach is to present task-relevant information in a form that is familiar, compellingly realistic, and intuitive to humans. Now VE designers seek ways to coordinate visual information with other sensory modalities. As part of our research on multimodal VE interfaces, the authors of this article supplemented a visual display with direct vestibular stimulation to add tilting and rolling sensations to training VEs. They discuss here their method and rationale and report the results from several experiments using vestibular stimulation in a training VE.