Evaluating design guidelines for reducing user disorientation in a desktop virtual environment

Smith, Shamus P.; Marsh, Tim

doi:10.1007/s10055-004-0137-x

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“…Subjective factors are commonly evaluated with questionnaires indicating user experiences of issues such as presence [30], user comfort/disorientation [24] and cybersickness [17].…”

Section: Evaluation Of 3d User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contributing issues include user disorientation [8,24], wayfinding problems [20] and interaction difficulties [16]. One way to support navigation is the use of explicit navigation aids [23].…”

Section: Navigation Tasks In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first task (see Figure 3) is designed to measure the participant's spatial perception and is based upon experiments described in [24]. Instructions are given in a start room for the participant to navigate to a finish room.…”

Section: Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The alternatives consisted of the actual path (alternative B in Figure 3) and of paths both more and less complex than the actual path. This provides a rudimentary metric and an indication of a participant's spatial perception, i.e whether an environment is perceived as more or less complex than it actually is [24]. …”

Section: Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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“…Subjective factors are commonly evaluated with questionnaires indicating user experiences of issues such as presence [30], user comfort/disorientation [24] and cybersickness [17].…”

Section: Evaluation Of 3d User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Navigation Tasks In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Taskmentioning

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Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

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Du'Mont

2009

2009 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces

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“…r It is a common idea that Virtual and Augmented Reality systems can facilitate the execution of tasks. But, if they are not well designed, users will face usability problems, such as motion sickness, difficulty of navigation or spatial disorientation [3] [4]. Furthermore, there are other problems specific to these technologies: high cost, performance and availability of software, database management, input and output devices, data visualization, mathematical description and representation of physical processes.…”

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Usability in virtual and augmented environments: a qualitative and quantitative study

Dias

Pimentel

Ferreira

et al. 2007

Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems XIV

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Virtual and Augmented Reality are developing rapidly: there is a multitude of environments and experiments in several laboratories using from simple HMD (Head-Mounted Display) visualization to more complex and expensive 6-wall projection CAVEs, and other systems. Still, there is not yet a clear emerging technology in this area, nor commercial applications based on such a technology are used in large scale. In addition to the fact that this is a relatively recent technology, there is little work to validate the utility and usability of Virtual and Augmented Reality environments when compared with the traditional desktop set-up. However, usability evaluation is crucial in order to design better systems that respond to the users' needs, as well as for identifying applications that might really gain from the use of such technologies. This paper presents a preliminary usability evaluation of a low-cost Virtual and Augmented Reality environment under development at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The objective is to assess the difference between a traditional desktop set-up and a Virtual/Augmented Reality system based on a stereo HMD. Two different studies were performed: the first one was qualitative and some feedback was obtained from domain experts who used an Augmented Reality set-up as well as a desktop in different data visualization scenarios. The second study consisted in a controlled experiment meant to compare users' performances in a gaming scenario in a Virtual Reality environment and a desktop. The overall conclusion is that these technologies still have to overcome some hardware problems. However, for short periods of time and specific applications, Virtual and Augmented Reality seems to be a valid alternative since HMD interaction is intuitive and natural.

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Perception and Orientation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Sodergren

Yang²,

Darzi³

2012

Arch Surg

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Evaluating design guidelines for reducing user disorientation in a desktop virtual environment

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

Measuring the effect of gaming experience on virtual environment navigation tasks

Usability in virtual and augmented environments: a qualitative and quantitative study

Perception and Orientation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

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