Visual attention for a desktop virtual environment with ambient scent

Visual attention for a desktop virtual environment with ambient scent

In the current study participants explored a desktop virtual environment (VE) representing a suburban neighborhood with signs of public disorder (neglect, vandalism, and crime), while being exposed to either room air (control group), or subliminal levels of tar (unpleasant; typically associated with burned or waste material) or freshly cut grass (pleasant; typically associated with natural or f...

In-Memory Virtual Desktop environment A performance comparison of a new Virtual Desktop paradigm

In-memory Computing (IMC) is the new trend for enabling high-performance computation and fast data processing. It is currently being used for large enterprises, e-commerce shops who need real-time interactions, low latency responses and instant results. Given the enhancement of the IMC, we apply this new paradigm to the Virtual Desktop Environment (VDE), and look into the performance difference...

TH3D: A Two-Handed Interaction Framework for Desktop Virtual Environment

This paper describes a two-handed interaction framework for desktop virtual environment, called TH3D. The design goal of this framework is to support the deviceindependent, task-centered, and fast development of twohanded applications on desktop computers. Existing research on two-handed interaction focuses mainly on specific interaction techniques and fails to achieve this goal. Our framework ...

The Role of Attention for Visual Perception in Desktop Virtual Reality Environments

No Effect of Ambient Odor on the Affective Appraisal of a Desktop Virtual Environment with Signs of Disorder

BACKGROUND Desktop virtual environments (VEs) are increasingly deployed to study the effects of environmental qualities and interventions on human behavior and safety related concerns in built environments. For these applications it is essential that users appraise the affective qualities of the VE similar to those of its real world counterpart. Previous studies have shown that factors like sim...