Title

Enhancing Spatial Awareness With Tactile Cues In A Virtual Environment

Abstract

Situation awareness is a critical component to many complex military tasks, where operators must be aware of the situation around them as it unfolds in real-time. Warfighters involved in military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) operate in a dynamic, highly stressful environment, where specific knowledge, such as spatial awareness of potential enemy location within a given space is required. Virtual training systems are one method that may be used to train soldiers, as they offer multimodal displays that expose trainees to situations/conditions that are otherwise expensive and dangerous for repeated live training (e.g., live bullets; injuries). This study examined the benefits of incorporating haptic cues into a VE training environment to enhance spatial awareness across successive training to examine learning effects associated with haptic training cues.

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Number of Pages

2673-2677

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

44349149366 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/44349149366

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