Usability evaluation of virtual reality interaction techniques for positioning and manoeuvring in reduced, manipulation-oriented environments

Martínez, Diego; Kieffer, Suzanne; Martínez, José María López; Molina, José Pascual; Macq, Benoı̂t; González, Pascual

doi:10.1007/s00371-010-0499-x

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“…Nevertheless, context adaptation for Post-WIMP applications is far more complex due to the richest real-time hardware-depending adaptation. For instance, in VR games, a user could be aware of receiving damage by means of vibrators [24][26] located on several parts of his/her body. However, if these wearable vibrators were unavailable for any reason, it would be needed an adaptation to provide the user with a visual method such as to show him/her a body representation in a VR display device highlighting the damaged area.…”

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Improving collaborative and Post-WIMP systems through requirements specification

Teruel

2014

2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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A proper requirements specification is paramount for achieving the quality of the developed software products. However, well-known Requirements Engineering (RE) techniques lack of enough expressiveness to model the requirements of CSCW systems (Computer Supported Collaborative Work). This is due to the inherent complexity of collaboration among users and their need of awareness. Moreover, the way in which users interact with CSCW systems have evolved greatly to more sophisticated interfaces, beyond the classical desktop computer environments, to those called Post-WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer). Awareness is magnified in such a way that users have to be aware of their context: the artifacts with which to interact, his/her own capabilities as well as those of the others. All this awareness is necessary to allow them to collaborate in virtual and/or augmented environments. This PhD thesis aims at solving this problem by developing a RE framework able to deal with the requirements of CSCW and Post-WIMP systems, making emphasis on the awareness requirements about user's context.

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Improving collaborative and Post-WIMP systems through requirements specification

Teruel

2014

2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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“…This resulted in the implementations of up to eleven different prototypes, each of them using different devices and techniques. Different presentation devices-monitors, head-mounted-devices, rear-projection screens-, input devices -mouse, P5 data glove, Wiimote and Fakespace pinch gloves-and techniques -composite and increased manoeuvring, composite positioning [24]-were compared during this process. Some prototypes even evaluated the usage of voice as an input modality, but its performance was very low, abd this approach was discarded.…”

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“…The four most promising ITes were evaluated in a summative comparative evaluation. The detailed description of these ITes, and the relevant conclusions gathered from this study can be found in [24]. However, the current paper will only focus in one of these prototypes, in order to provide enough details about its implementation using the framework presented.…”

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“…Users: The profile of the users was studied and their abilities taken into account. The way this profile affected the ITes is described into more detail in [24]. Ergonomics: The position and movements that the users would have to perform to use the ITes was considered, to avoid discomfort or tiredness.…”

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“…The second line of components implements the composite manoeuvring technique [24] that controls the position and orientation of the virtual head. CalculateProjection uses head position updates -and ignores hand updates-to calculate the 2D point of the screen where the user is looking at -see point P in Fig.…”

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Usability evaluation of virtual reality interaction techniques for positioning and manoeuvring in reduced, manipulation-oriented environments

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