2. Louis Fletcher, Jr. Elon University Research Experiences for Undergraduates Summer 2006 UNC Charlotte

3. 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

4. Navigate through a maze  Maze, what maze?

5. Question Posed  How is an immersive environment different from navigating a maze on a regular computer screen? Or

6. What is an HMD?  HMD, what does that mean?  Different Movement  Trackers

7. Maze Screenshot 1

8. Maze Screenshot 2

9. Maze Screenshot 3

10. 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.

11. 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 findings  Logging all tracking data

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. The end  Thank you for viewing this presentation and I am open to any and all feedback.

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