[Siguse-l] [Asis-l] HCIL Seminar: 2:00pm-Tuesday, Sept. 24 - Avi Parush, "Orientation and Navigation in 3D User Interfaces..."

[Richard Hill]

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                 HCIL Seminar Series 2002
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Tuesday, September 24th
Avi Parush, Israel Institute of Technology
2:00pm, 3258 A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland, College Park

"Orientation and Navigation in 3D User Interfaces: Is It Like in the Real
World?"

The introduction of 3D user interfaces, particularly those with a real-place
metaphor, is based on the assumption that we can apply our real world spatial
cognition to the virtual world.  Research literature indicates that spatial
cognition is based on three kinds of knowledge: landmarks, routes, and surveys
(map-like), which can be acquired with the aid of maps and route lists.  In 
this
study, orientation and navigation performance in a 3D user interface was
explored as a function of those two navigational aids: a route list and a map,
and two design configurations: with and without landmarks.   Preliminary
analysis of the data indicates that the impact of the presence vs. absence of
landmarks and the navigational aids on orientation and navigation in a 3D user
interface is somewhat different from the real world.  The practical and
theoretical implications of those differences are discussed.

Avi Parush completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology and graduated in 1984 from
McGill University, Canada.  After completing his PhD, he worked as a human
factors engineer and user interface designer in a variety of domains ranging
from the bridge of an icebreaker and the cockpit of a jet fighter to 
medical and
telecomm systems, to mobile devices and speech-based interfaces.  Avi is the
co-founder of LaHIT, one of Israel's leading usability consulting firms, and
founded and chairs the Israeli local SIGCHI.  For the past four years he has
been a senior adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and a visiting scientist
at the Technion where he teaches and conducts HCI-related research projects.

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This is a free seminar and open to the public. No registration required.
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Hosted by the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of
Maryland, College Park. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil



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