@inproceedings{d8e6a5a0d4fd4941ba8962a961f8afff,
title = "The impact of interactive manipulation on the recognition of objects",
abstract = "A new application for VR has emerged: product development, in which several stakeholders (from engineers to end users) use the same VR for development and communicate purposes. Various characteristics among these stakeholders vary considerably, which imposes potential constraints to the VR. The current paper discusses the influence of three types of exploration of objects (i.e., none, passive, active) on one of these characteristics: the ability to form mental representations or visuo-spatial ability (VSA). Through an experiment we found that all users benefit from exploring objects. Moreover, people with low VSA (e.g., end users) benefit from an interactive exploration of objects opposed to people with a medium or high VSA (e.g. engineers), who are not sensitive for the type of exploration. Hence, for VR environments in which multiple stakeholders participate (e.g. for product development), differences among their cognitive abilities (e.g., VSA) have to be taken into account to enable an efficient usage of VR.",
keywords = "METIS-251711, HMI-HF: Human Factors, HMI-VRG: Virtual Reality and Graphics, mental representations, Visuo-spatial ability, Virtual Reality (VR), Interactive exploration, IR-78923, EWI-20954",
author = "F. Meijer and {van den Broek}, Egon and Theo Schouten",
year = "2008",
month = feb,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1117/12.766337",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-0-81946-978-6",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "68060H",
editor = "B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas",
booktitle = "Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII",
address = "United States",
note = "Human Vision and Electronic Imaging ; Conference date: 01-01-1900",
}