| Title | Using Cognitive Walkthrough and Hybrid Prototyping to Gather User Requirements in Early Design Virtual Reality Prototypes |
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| Authors | Doumanis, I. and Economou, D. |
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| Editors | Beck, D., Peña-Rios, A., Ogle, T., Economou, D., Mentzelopoulos, M., Morgado, L., Eckhardt, C., Pirker, J., Koitz-Hristov, R., Richter, J., Gütl, C. and Gardner, M. |
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| Type | Conference paper |
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| Abstract | To evaluate Virtual Reality (VR) prototypes usability involves a va-riety of single-perspective or Hybrid methods. The latter has being suggested by literature as offering a more complete sets of requirements highlighting both ‘in-world’ and user interface problems. This paper describes our experiences in using a single-perspective method for gathering user requirements in the REVERIE (Real and Virtual Engagement In Realistic Immersive Environment) project. The study reports results involving nine evaluators who reviewed two hybrid VR prototypes with educational context. It was found that this approach was effective in highlighting a plethora of usability problems covering all as-pects of the two VR prototypes. The performance of our approach was similar to the literature. Although additional validation work is required, we can con-clude that our approach may provide a viable option to evaluate early design VR prototypes when required (e.g., when the expertise needed to use a hybrid method is not available). Future work aims to compare the performance of our approach with two-stage and multiple stage hybrid methods. |
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| Keywords | Usability methods |
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| Cognitive walkthrough |
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| Virtual worlds |
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| User interface |
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| Interaction |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Conference | 5th International Conference of Immersive Learning Research Network |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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| Publication dates |
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| Published online | 16 Jun 2019 |
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| Journal citation | pp. 234-246 |
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| ISSN | 1865-0929 |
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| Book title | Immersive Learning Research Network: 5th International Conference, iLRN 2019, London, UK, June 23–27, 2019, Proceedings |
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| ISBN | 9783030230890 |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23089-0_18 |
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| Web address (URL) | https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030230883 |
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