Evaluation Of A Head Tracked 3-D Document Visualization

This paper describes a controlled experiment in which we outfitted a simple electronic document viewer with 3-D display capabilities and head tracking technologies, to provide a convincing 3-D representation of a document at different viewing angles. The head orientation and position of a user viewing a document is also tracked, to allow the user to browse the entirety of a page simply through head movements. This system was compared to conventional paper documents and simple electronic views of documents, by evaluating search and reading comprehension tasks involving academic research papers. We determined that the modified system showed no significant benefit with regard to these tasks, in comparison to the views provided by standard paper and electronic documents.

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