Designing Virtual Environments for Usability

Kaur, Kulwinder

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35175-9_112

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“…Kaur's usability thesis (Kaur, 1998) is largely about usability issues pertaining to such systems. While Kaur's work focuses on the design for users of virtual environments the focus here is on the design of environments for visitors.…”

Section: Place and Accommodationmentioning

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Visitor-Oriented Design-Three Studies of Visitor Accommodation and a Call for Action

Hedman¹

2003

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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This article proposes and describes a visitor-oriented perspective emphasizing the unique needs of visitors of digital environments in contrast to the user-oriented perspective that emphasizes the needs of users. To do so the term accommodation is introduced in a technical sense and given a brief explanation. Results are also reported from three explorative studies of desktop virtual reality environments. In these studies the visitor-oriented perspective was adopted and allowed for analyzing how subjects perceived the environments as places rather than artifacts for use. In comparison to a web site, it was found that even a rudimentary virtual reality environment can have a positive impact on visitor regard for information content. Implementing teleports increased the efficiency of one test environment but it was not found to have a positive effect on user attitudes to the environment. Many subjects felt that first the environment was sterile. Another common complaint was about the amount of walking required in the first environment. Five suggestions are given for building desktop virtual reality environments that are better received by visitors. In closing, the visitor-oriented perspective presented here is briefly discussed in relation to Terry Winograd's writings on software inhabitants. PLACE AND ACCOMMODATIONThe starting point for this article is a description of a proposed design approach that centers on visitors of digital environments rather than users of digital environments. In order to explain this approach and to have a working terminology, the term accommodation is introduced in a technical sense. The term digital environment is also used, and for the purposes of this article it should be understood as referring to any digital artifact that can be experienced as a place. This article, however, centers on user studies conducted within a particular kind of digital environment: the desktop virtual reality system. This kind of system runs on an ordinary personal computer. With desktop virtual reality systems, environments are rendered on a standard CRT monitor producing convincing representations of 3D space.The subject interacting with a desktop virtual environment can move about within the environment, typically by using the arrow keys of a standard keyboard or by moving a mouse. Kaur's usability thesis (Kaur, 1998) is largely about usability issues pertaining to such systems. While Kaur's work focuses on the design for users of virtual environments the focus here is on the design of environments for visitors. The unique needs visitors have are here characterized as accommodative needs.Accommodation occurs with digital artifacts capable of being experienced as places Hedman, 1999-2). In places (electronic or not) subjects as visitors reveal feelings, attitudes and dispositions that indicate how well accommodated they are. Arguably the needs of visitors are different from the needs of users. The subject as user has needs in order to work easily and efficiently with her/his digital tools such as the ac...

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Section: Place and Accommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visitor-Oriented Design-Three Studies of Visitor Accommodation and a Call for Action

Hedman¹

2003

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…To prevent and reduce the common usability problems in VEs, interface design guidance is introduced as a helpful approach [25]. This approach is argued to be effective in terms of increasing the user spatial awarness in VEs and interaction and controlling objects in VE.…”

Section: Usabilitymentioning

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A Review on Cybersickness and Usability in Virtual Environments

Mousavi

Yap

Musa

2013

AEF

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Abstract. With the emerge of new technologies many systems are presented to a wider range of users at reasonable costs. Virtual Reality (VR) technology has also entered many new economical areas such as tourism, business, online games, and also cultural heritage. The new advancement in VR and its availability to the end user in many forms necessitates considering the health issues because cybersickness is one of the drawbacks of Virtual Environments (VE). In addition, usability of the VE and the provided VR technology and system is of paramount importance in the market to attract the user. However, usability measurement of the VE also has become a difficult issue due to the vast range of products and users. A review on the cybersickness and usability issues in VE is prepared and presented in this paper.

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“…Nevertheless, methodologies, 2D laws extension, guidelines or principles are emerging for VE such as usability engineering methodology [6] VR application but not on 3D IT, principles and guidelines for VE [7] , however they are taken from experimenter experience rather than from empirical results [3] or Fitt's law extension [8] for VE. Moreover, there are evaluation tools using guidelines and principles such as MAUVE system [9] which provides a structured approach for achieving usability in VE system design and evaluation.…”

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Creating 3D Interaction Technique empirical evaluation with the use of a knowledge database of interaction experiments

Domingues

Otmane

Davesne

et al. 2008

2008 Conference on Human System Interactions

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Designing Virtual Environments for Usability

Abstract: The development of HeI guidelines for virtual environments, is reported, using interaction modelling.

Cited by 58 publications

References 3 publications

Visitor-Oriented Design-Three Studies of Visitor Accommodation and a Call for Action

Visitor-Oriented Design-Three Studies of Visitor Accommodation and a Call for Action

A Review on Cybersickness and Usability in Virtual Environments

Creating 3D Interaction Technique empirical evaluation with the use of a knowledge database of interaction experiments

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