Abstract
For navigation ability, a transfer of knowledge from virtual training environments to real-world scenarios has been shown in several studies in the past. The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate the equivalence of a series of navigation tasks in complex real-world and virtual buildings. Instead of testing knowledge transfer in very simple environments, identical tasks were performed in either version of a complex building. In this investigation, 29 participants were shown twelve landmarks, followed by a battery of tasks which were carried out in the real building by half of the participants, whereas the other half performed identical tasks in a virtual model of the same environment. No significant differences or effects were found, but due to the multifaceted nature of the gathered data and large variability within groups, overlap of both groups’ distributions was minimal. To discover the underlying factors of this variability, further research is needed.
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