Interacting with virtual environments: an evaluation of a model of interaction

Kaur, Kulwinder; Maiden, Neil; Sutcliffe﻿, Alistair

doi:10.1016/s0953-5438(98)00059-9

Cited by 32 publications

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“…There are some notable exceptions (Bowman, 2002;Conkar, Noyes, & Kimble, 1999;Gabbard, 1997;Kaur, 1998;Kaur, Maiden, & Sutcliffe, 1999;Mills & Noyes, 1999;, and heuristic evaluation is a critical step in assessing the usability of a VE interface prior to studying real users attempting representative tasks in the VE. It is not likely that a large number of heuristics will appear at least until VE input and output devices become more standardized.…”

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A Survey of Usability Evaluation in Virtual Environments: Classification and Comparison of Methods

Bowman

Gabbard

Hix

2002

Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments

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Virtual environments (VEs) are a relatively new type of human-computer interface in which users perceive and act in a three-dimensional world. The designers of such systems cannot rely solely on design guidelines for traditional two-dimensional interfaces, so usability evaluation is crucial for VEs. This paper presents an overview of VE usability evaluation to organize and critically analyze diverse work from this field. First, we discuss some of the issues that differentiate VE usability evaluation from evaluation of traditional user interfaces such as GUIs. We also present a review of some VE evaluation methods currently in use, and discuss a simple classification space for VE usability evaluation methods. This classification space provides a structured means for comparing evaluation methods according to three key characteristics: involvement of representative users, context of evaluation, and types of results produced. Finally, to illustrate these concepts, we compare two existing evaluation approaches: testbed evaluation (Bowman, Johnson, & Hodges, 1999) and sequential evaluation .

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Section: Issues Related To Type Of Usability Evaluationmentioning

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A Survey of Usability Evaluation in Virtual Environments: Classification and Comparison of Methods

Bowman

Gabbard

Hix

2002

Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments

274

151

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“…Evaluation also aims to increase overall understanding for developing design guidelines, and to develop performance models, which can be used to predict the performance of a user on a particular task [5,8,16,29].…”

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“…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].…”

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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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“…Virtual reality environments are also used for studying human navigation and visual cognition (Kaur, Maiden, & Sutcliffe, 1999). Darken (1996) explored navigation in four different large-scale virtual environments.…”

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