Perception of approaching and retreating floor-projected shapes in a large, immersive, multimedia learning environment.
Perception of floor-projected moving geometric shapes was examined in the context of the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory (SMALLab), an immersive, mixed-reality learning environment. As predicted, the projected destinations of shapes which retreated in depth (proximal origin) were judged significantly less accurately than those that approached (distal origin). Participants maintained similar magnitudes of error throughout the session, and no effect of practice was observed. Shape perception in an immersive multimedia environment is comparable to the real world. One may conclude that systematic exploration of basic psychological phenomena in novel mediated environments is integral to an understanding of human behavior in novel human-computer interaction architectures.
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Department of Psychology, Box 871104, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA. id@asu.edu
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D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003867:Depth Perception; D004779:Environment Design; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception; D019212:Multimedia; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011589:Psychology, Experimental / Q000295:instrumentation; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface