Route Previews : Enhancing the Route Selection Process in Large-Scale Virtual Environments

In large-scale virtual environments (VEs), there are often several different routes to a target destination. In this paper, we introduce a route preview tool to help users of VEs with the route selection process. Our experiments showed that the proposed route preview tool provides the necessary support to help users select a desirable route. CR Categories: H.5.2 [User Interfaces]; I.3.7 [ThreeDimensional Graphics and Realism] Additional

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