Desktop virtual environments: a study of navigation and age

Sayers, H.

doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2004.05.003

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“…This study does not explicitly consider specific users or user groups [65], nor does it examine specific user needs, disabilities [33,52], or the role of user experience [10]. Nor does it discuss ease of learning, which is an important dimension of universal access that affects both the uptake and subsequent usage of information technologies, although it should be noted that many videogames adopt a learning-by-doing paradigm of learning, which is highly effective for users who have little propensity for reading instructions or time for undertaking formal learning in order to use information technologies.…”

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The design-by-adaptation approach to universal access: learning from videogame technology

Shepherd

Bleasdale-Shepherd

2010

Univ Access Inf Soc

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This paper proposes an alternative approach to the design of universally accessible interfaces to that provided by formal design frameworks applied ab initio to the development of new software. This approach, design-by-adaptation, involves the transfer of interface technology and/or design principles from one application domain to another, in situations where the recipient domain is similar to the host domain in terms of modelled systems, tasks and users. Using the example of interaction in 3D virtual environments, the paper explores how principles underlying the design of videogame interfaces may be applied to a broad family of visualization and analysis software which handles geographical data (virtual geographic environments, or VGEs). One of the motivations behind the current study is that VGE technology lags some way behind videogame technology in the modelling of 3D environments, and has a less-developed track record in providing the variety of interaction methods needed to undertake varied tasks in 3D virtual worlds by users with varied levels of experience. The current analysis extracted a set of interaction principles from videogames which were used to devise a set of 3D task interfaces that have been implemented in a prototype VGE for formal evaluation.

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confidence: 99%

The design-by-adaptation approach to universal access: learning from videogame technology

Shepherd

Bleasdale-Shepherd

2010

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…Navigation is the most common task within virtual environments [21]. Darken and Peterson [8] present an overview of navigation in virtual environments.…”

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Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

Smith

Du'Mont

2009

2009 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces

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advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTVirtual environments are synthetic 3D worlds typically viewed from a first-person point of view with many potential applications within areas such as visualisation, entertainment and training simulators.To effectively develop and utilise virtual environments, user-centric evaluations are commonly performed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that factors such as prior experience with computer games may affect the results of such evaluations. This paper examines the effects of previous computer gaming experience, user perceived gaming ability and actual gaming performance on navigation tasks in a virtual environment. Two computer games and a virtual environment were developed to elicit performance metrics for use within a user study. Results indicated that perceived gaming skill and progress in a First-Person-Shooter (FPS) game were the most consistent metrics showing significant correlations with performance in time-based navigation tasks. There was also strong evidence that these relations were significantly intensified by the inclusion of participants who play FPS games. In addition, it was found that increased gaming experience decreased spatial perception performance.

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“…Aging affects general changes (declines) in perception, cognition and movement control, which have an influence on learning and using digitised systems (Morrell et al, 2002;Neerincx et al, 2000;Xie, 2002). Seniors have been found to be slower than young adults on information retrieval tasks (Freudenthal, 2001;Nap, De Greef, and Bouwhuis, 2005), on 3D navigation using desktop systems (Sayers, 2004), and on web navigation (Neerincx et al, 2000). Not having access to or not being able to use digitised systems may put older adults at a disadvantage in terms of their ability to live independently (Czaja and Lee, 2007).…”

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Self-efficacy support in senior computer interaction

Nap

Greef

Bouwhuis

2013

IJCPS

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Self-efficacy of seniors could be negatively affected by stress during computer interaction, yet, empirical evidence is lacking. In an experiment, seniors performed tasks on low-and high-complexity search systems. Self-efficacy was manipulated by performance feedback. Results demonstrate that negative feedback increases stress and decreases self-efficacy. Furthermore, positive feedback increases seniors' self-efficacy during computer interaction and a significant effect was found of self-efficacy on stress. Perceived stress increased with decreasing self-efficacy. System complexity influenced self-efficacy; yet, no relation was found between system complexity and stress. To increase self-efficacy and to decrease stress in senior-computer interaction, it is advised to support seniors during computer interaction with positive performance feedback.

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Desktop virtual environments: a study of navigation and age

Cited by 52 publications

References 28 publications

The design-by-adaptation approach to universal access: learning from videogame technology

The design-by-adaptation approach to universal access: learning from videogame technology

Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

Self-efficacy support in senior computer interaction

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