The Impact of Spatialized Communications on Team Navigation

Andrew Hampton; Valerie L. Shalin; Eric Robinson; Brian Simpson; Victor Finomore; Jeffery Cowgill; Thomas Moore; Terry Rapoch; Robert Gilkey

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The Impact of Spatialized Communications on Team Navigation

Andrew Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Eric Robinson, Brian Simpson, Victor Finomore, Jeffery Cowgill, Thomas Moore, Terry Rapoch, Robert Gilkey

Psychology

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Abstract

A team navigation task allowed the evaluation of spatialized communications to help ground soldiers maintain awareness of each other’s locations in complex environments. Subjects had to rendezvous as quickly as possible from unknown starting locations in large, unfamiliar, urban virtual environments. Traditional monaural and 3D audio communication channels were compared. In the 3D audio condition, talkers could make their communications sound like they arose from their own location or from the location of another object in the environment (audio annotation). Some conditions included additional prominent landmarks. Rendezvous times were significantly shorter in the 3D audio condition, but the presence or absence of additional landmarks did not impact performance. The results are compared to previous research on spatialized auditory displays and on team navigation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
Publisher	SAGE Publications, Inc.
Pages	463-467
Number of pages	5
Volume	56
ISBN (Print)	9780945289418
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181312561045
State	Published - 2012
Event	56th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting - Boston, United States Duration: Oct 22 2012 → Oct 26 2012 Conference number: 54

Conference

Conference	56th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
Abbreviated title	HFES 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	10/22/12 → 10/26/12

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Team navigation

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Psychology

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Hampton, A, Shalin, VL, Robinson, E, Simpson, B, Finomore, V, Cowgill, J, Moore, T, Rapoch, T & Gilkey, R 2012, The Impact of Spatialized Communications on Team Navigation. in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. vol. 56, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 463-467, 56th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 10/22/12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181312561045

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