Chapter 8. Travel

As we described in the introduction to Part IV, navigation is a fundamental human task in our physical environment. We are also increasingly faced with navigation tasks in synthetic environments: navigating the Web via a browser, navigating a complex document in a word processor, navigating through many layers of information in a spreadsheet, or navigating the virtual world of a computer game. Navigation in 3D UIs is the subject of this chapter.

8.1 Introduction

This chapter discusses both aspects of navigation: travel and wayfinding. In the first edition of this book, we covered these topics in two separate chapters. However, because they are tightly integrated, we have combined the topics in this edition. The emphasis is ...

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