Louis Fletcher, Jr. Elon University

Research Experiences for UndergraduatesSummer 2006UNC Charlotte

Project Motivation Build useful VR applications Understand how people perform in

immersive environment as compared to real world standard screen displayed or small screen environment

Navigate through a maze Maze, what maze?

Question Posed How is an immersive environment

different from navigating a maze on a regular computer screen?

Or

What is an HMD?HMD, what does that mean?Different MovementTrackers

Maze Screenshot 1

Maze Screenshot 2

Maze Screenshot 3

Maze Completion Maze evaluated on 3 criteria:

- Did users complete the maze?

- Were they able to complete the maze within the time constraint?

- Could they correctly identify the maze from a maze line up.

What did we measure?

Could they find their way out of the maze?Could they complete the maze on time?Did they explore the maze differently?Details on findingsLogging all tracking data

Things I learned

Working with 3D Game Studio environment Experience with a modified C scripting language

within 3D Game Studio Working in Haptek environment Working with other programmers code

Lessons Learned So Far Making a tutorial

environment for subjects makes everything easier.

Spend as much time on perfecting mazes as possible.

Adjust the depth of maze project explanation based on your audience.

Explain maze completion

Future Work Evaluate all the data from pilot test Test subjects on different maze environments. Continuing redefining the maze

The end Thank you for viewing this presentation and I am

open to any and all feedback.

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