Usability assessment exercises

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Goal of the Project

Create a virtual place for collaborative work

Support interactions between people

Support for virtual meetings

Method for Evaluation

Subjects: max. 10 CVE developers

Data collection: Questionnaires, Videos

Tasks: Virtual meetings, Collaborative games, Training

Constraints

• Geographically Distributed Setting, with 6 sites
• Prototype, subject to rapid changes
• Development of New Technology

Usability Topics Covered

Experience and Learning

Cognitive Immersion Tendencies

Awareness and Co-Presence

Group Involvement and Interaction

Switching between Real and Virtual

Blackboard, Audio, Spatial Model

General Satisfaction

Feedback on Trials and Method

Results

Automatic Behaviours for:

• Virtual Enbodiments
• Virtual Objects
• Collaborative Work

Methodology of Distributed VR Evaluations

Conclusions

Users can successfully use and accept the application

Collection of Human CVE Behavioural Data for:

• Improvements to MASSIVE
• Benchmarking new versions, and other CVEs
• Pooling of data for Scientific Understanding

Identification of Evaluation Methods for 3D Computer Generated Spaces