TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual reality as a valuable research tool for investigating different aspects of spatial cognition
AU - Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
AU - Campos, Jennifer L.
AU - Meilinger, Tobias
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The interdisciplinary research field of spatial cognition has benefited greatly from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. Such tools have provided the ability to explicitly control specific experimental conditions, manipulate variables not possible in the real world, and provide a convincing, multimodal experience. Here we will first describe several of the VR facilities at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biological Cybernetics that have been developed to optimize scientific investigations related to multi-modal self-motion perception and spatial cognition. Subsequently, we will present some recent empirical work contributing to these research areas.
AB - The interdisciplinary research field of spatial cognition has benefited greatly from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. Such tools have provided the ability to explicitly control specific experimental conditions, manipulate variables not possible in the real world, and provide a convincing, multimodal experience. Here we will first describe several of the VR facilities at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biological Cybernetics that have been developed to optimize scientific investigations related to multi-modal self-motion perception and spatial cognition. Subsequently, we will present some recent empirical work contributing to these research areas.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=56549105564&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-87601-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-87601-4_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56549105564
SN - 3540876006
SN - 9783540876007
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 3
BT - Spatial Cognition VI
T2 - International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008
Y2 - 15 September 2008 through 19 September 2008
ER -