Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization
by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni, Michael Barlow
Navigation
Navigation is an area of psychological study influenced heavily by the pioneering work of the psychologist Edward Tollman and his students at Berkley in the '40s. Tollman showed that rats used mental maps of the environment to perform rather amazing navigational feats such as shortcut taking and escape route planning. A key argument was based on the fact that rats showed so-called incidental learning. It was shown that rats took in information about many aspects of the environment that were not necessary to the performance of the task they were trained on.
A paucity of data addresses how humans navigate in virtual environments, but it is clear that navigation behaviors can make a big difference in the feeling of presence. There is ...
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