Being There For Real - Presence in Real and Virtual Environments and its Relation to Usability

Marc Busch; Mario Lorenz; Manfred Tscheligi; Christina Hochleitner; Trenton Schulz

doi:10.1145/2639189.2639224

Being There For Real - Presence in Real and Virtual Environments and its Relation to Usability

Marc Busch (Speaker), Mario Lorenz, Manfred Tscheligi, Christina Hochleitner, Trenton Schulz

Center for Technology Experience

Chemnitz University of Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Proceedings › Conference Proceedings with Oral Presentation › peer-review

Abstract

Presence, the participants´ feeling of "being there" in an environment, is important for usability studies, as this can affect their outcomes. We aim at extending the concept of presence from virtual to real environments in the context of usability studies. We compare two environments - a virtual field environment (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment [CAVE]) and a real laboratory environment - in a between-subjects study by means of presence. In both environments, we evaluate the usability and learnability of a mobile application. Data (n = 65) shows higher ecological validity for the real environment, but higher engagement as well as higher negative effects for the virtual environment. There is no significant difference between usability and learnability between the two environments. Presence factors are significantly related to usability in the two environments. The results suggest that - although there are differences in presence - virtual and real environments perform equally in usability studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI '14 Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
Pages	117-126
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2639224
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	NordiCHI'14 - 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Duration: 26 Oct 2014 → 30 Oct 2014

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Conference	NordiCHI'14 - 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Period	26/10/14 → 30/10/14

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Former Research Field - Technology Experience

Keywords

Evaluation Environments
Usability Studies
Presence

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Busch, M, Lorenz, M, Tscheligi, M, Hochleitner, C & Schulz, T 2014, Being There For Real - Presence in Real and Virtual Environments and its Relation to Usability. in NordiCHI '14 Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. pp. 117-126, NordiCHI'14 - 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 26/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2639224

Being There For Real - Presence in Real and Virtual Environments and its Relation to Usability. / Busch, Marc (Speaker); Lorenz, Mario; Tscheligi, Manfred et al.
NordiCHI '14 Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. 2014. p. 117-126.

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Proceedings › Conference Proceedings with Oral Presentation › peer-review

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