Symbolic Enhancement of Perspective Displays
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting
- Vol. 34 (19) , 1465-1469
- https://doi.org/10.1177/154193129003401910
Abstract
Two exocentric azimuth judgement experiments with a perspective display were conducted with 16 subjects. Previous work has shown these judgements to exhibit a bias possibly due to misinterpretation of the viewing parameters used to generate the display. Though geometric compensations may be used to correct for the bias, an alternate technique selected in the following 2 experiments was the introduction of symbolic enhancements in the form of compass roses. It is suggested that a compass rose with 30° divisions results in overall optimal azimuth estimation accuracy when accuracy and decision time are both considered. The data also suggest that the added radial lines on the compass roses may interact with normalization processes that influence the judgement errors.Keywords
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