Publicación: USABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
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2023
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LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE-SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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VIRTUAL REALITY IS A CONCEPT OF SPECIALIZED HARDWARE THAT GENERATES AN EXPERIENCE WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INTENSITY AND INTERACTIVITY WITHIN ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH USERS FEEL IMMERSED IN AN APPARENTLY REAL WORLD AND IS DEFINED BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY. CURRENTLY, SEVERAL FIELDS, SUCH AS EDUCATION AND HEALTH, USE VIRTUAL REALITY. DUE TO THE WIDE RANGE OF USERS (CHILDREN, YOUTH, ADULTS, AND EVEN OLDER ADULTS) WHO CAN INTERACT WITH VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO CONSIDER THE USABILITY OF THIS TYPE OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM. THE EVALUATION OF USABILITY IS CARRIED OUT THROUGH USABILITY TESTS. RESEARCH ON EVALUATING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS? USABILITY IS SCATTERED IN SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC DATABASES. TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, NO RESEARCH WORK COMPILES AND REPORTS GLOBALLY ON WHICH TECHNIQUES ARE USED TO EVALUATE THE USABILITY OF SUCH SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. WE CONDUCTED A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING STUDY TO ASSESS THE GENERAL PANORAMA OF TECHNIQUES RELATED TO USABILITY EVALUATION THAT ARE BEING USED IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS. WE IDENTIFIED A TOTAL OF 30 PRIMARY STUDIES. THE MAIN TECHNIQUES FOR USABILITY EVALUATION ARE INTERVIEWS, HEURISTIC EVALUATION, SURVEYS, USABILITY EXPERIMENTS AND EXPERT EVALUATION. SOME OF THESE TECHNIQUES ARE BEING USED TOGETHER. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME WORKS THAT PROPOSE FRAMEWORKS OR METHODOLOGIES FOR EVALUATING THE USABILITY OF VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS.
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Virtual Environments, Usability Evaluation, Exploratory Study
