Spatial Orientation in Telepresence (C02)

The project studies continuous spatial updating with its critical role for spatial orientation in synthetic environments. Experimental tasks involve the encoding of locations, self-motion in virtual reality setups that induce strong presence (including industrial scenarios), and tests for the updating of egocentric location representations. Participants perform pointing and triangle completion tasks. The self-motion is either merely simulated translation or real combined with simulated self-motion, or real self-motion (re-directed walking). The experiments disentangle continuous and instantaneous spatial updating, and determine the contributions of visual and internal (idiothetic) cues to cue combination.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 1410:  Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies

Applicant Institution Technische Universität Chemnitz

Project Heads Professor Dr. Georg Jahn; Dr.-Ing. Philipp Klimant