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Evaluation of walking in place on a Wii balance board to explore a virtual environment

2011; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/2010325.2010329

1544-3965

Betsy Williams, Stephen W. Bailey, Gayathri Narasimham, Muqun Li, Bobby Bodenheimer,

Spatial Cognition and Navigation

In this work, we present a method of “Walking In Place” (WIP) on the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board to explore a virtual environment. We directly compare our method to joystick locomotion and normal walking. The joystick proves inferior to physically walking and to WIP on the Wii Balance Board (WIP--Wii). Interestingly, we find that physically exploring an environment on foot is equivalent in terms of spatial orientation to exploring an environment using our WIP--Wii method. This implies that the WIP--Wii is a good inexpensive alternative to exploring a virtual environment and it may be well--suited for exploring large virtual environments.