Towards user empowerment in product design: a mixed reality tool for interactive virtual prototyping

Arrighi, Pierre-Antoine; Mougenot, Céline

doi:10.1007/s10845-016-1276-0

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“…(Berg and Vance, 2017). Arrighi and Mougenot (2016) developed a digital tool that utilizes the immersive, physical interfaces of VR environment specifically for prototyping. The user can access and interact with the content displayed in the VR space to manipulate the hardware system, a modular tangible user interfaces (TUIs).…”

Section: Vr As a Design Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Björling¹,

Kim²,

Oleson³

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual reality (VR) offers potential as a collaborative tool for both technology design and human-robot interaction. We utilized a participatory, human-centered design (HCD) methodology to develop a collaborative, asymmetric VR game to explore teens’ perceptions of, and interactions with, social robots. Our paper illustrates three stages of our design process; ideation, prototyping, and usability testing with users. Through these stages we identified important design requirements for our mid-fidelity environment. We then describe findings from our pilot test of the mid-fidelity VR game with teens. Due to the unique asymmetric virtual reality design, we observed successful collaborations, and interesting collaboration styles across teens. This study highlights the potential for asymmetric VR as a collaborative design tool as well as an appropriate medium for successful teen-to-teen collaboration.

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Section: Vr As a Design Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Björling¹,

Kim²,

Oleson³

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…This also became a trend in recent years, which is reflected in the number of scientific publications about developing game engine based authoring tools. Several of the earlier described tools also utilize game engines, precisely Unity [e.g., (Roth, 2011;Takala, 2014;Adão et al, 2018;Park and Han, 2018;Arrighi and Mougenot, 2019;Coelho et al, 2019;Gasques et al, 2019)]. Similar to tools that were not built with game engines, the tools resulting from game engines can differ in various aspects.…”

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confidence: 99%

Authoring With Virtual Reality Nuggets—Lessons Learned

Horst

Naraghi-Taghi-Off

Rau

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual Reality (VR) systems and VR content are complex, and their creation can mainly be conducted by experts in VR and related areas. That makes the use of VR challenging for experts from other domains, such as educators. In this paper, we build up on existing work and investigate the VR nugget concept—small self-contained VR systems that are built from educational design patterns. Particularly, we extend this concept and introduce structured authoring processes based on VR nuggets that show how standalone, combinable, and reusable VR software can serve as a meta-level guide for various VR applications and involve educators as domain experts. We conduct a user study with VR Forge, a VR-nugget-based authoring software tool, to draw conclusions on how pattern-based VR authoring tools should be designed to support domain experts. We compare our results with those of a related study of the VR nugget tool IN Tiles. Based on the comparative results of usability and hedonic quality measures, both anecdotal evidence and statistically significant results support the concept’s potential for VR authoring conducted by practitioners who are not experts in VR. We derive the recommendation that the design of a VR-nugget-based authoring environment will benefit from using both immersive and desktop user interface (UI) technologies and that the authoring workflow will need authors to frequently alternate between the technologies. We state findings and lessons learned from the development and the studies. We contribute insights in developing reusable and use-case-specific VR content and tools and propose authoring processes that focus on the tasks and goals of domain experts as the primary authoring role within educational VR development. Finally, the relevance of VR-nugget-based authoring is supported by anecdotal evidence gathered from over 3 years of investigating and applying it within three educational institutions and a company providing education services.

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“…In this work, we use digital tools and the manipulation of CAD data for a better integration. Physical behaviour and material properties being embedded in CAD itself, allows flexible exploration of design space [35,6]. CAD data when used with immersive environment can be used for stimulating users sense of vision, hearing and touch.…”

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A mixed reality tool for end-users participation in early creative design tasks

Maurya

Arai

Moriya

et al. 2018

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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While Mixed Prototyping has proved to be e↵ective for the assessment of prototypes, this research aims to explore the use of Mixed Prototyping for the generation of early prototypes. To satisfy end-user's needs, new products need to be designed with an early integration of end-user requirements. An e cient way to achieve this is to directly integrate the end-users in the design process and give them an intelligible and interactive tool to perform specific design tasks. Current interactive tools to integrate end-users in the design process provide either a high level of immersion (e.g. CAVE) or a high level of control over the virtual prototype (e.g. Configurators). We designed a new Mixed Reality design tool which simultaneously allows end-users to be immersed in a virtual environment (immersion) and to interact with a virtual prototype and to modify it (control), resulting in e↵ective end user-interactions. In two design use-case scenarios, we assessed the enduser experience and satisfaction while using the tool and we also evaluated the impact of the tool on the creative process and the design outcomes. The findings show that, when users are provided with a tool that allows to directly perform design tasks and modify a virtual prototype, as compared to when they have no control, they are more engaged in the design tasks, more satisfied with the design process and they produce more creative outcomes.

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Towards user empowerment in product design: a mixed reality tool for interactive virtual prototyping

Cited by 44 publications

References 42 publications

I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Authoring With Virtual Reality Nuggets—Lessons Learned

A mixed reality tool for end-users participation in early creative design tasks

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