Design and Evaluation of an Asynchronous VR Exploration System for Architectural Design Discussion Content
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Research Background
1.2. Problems and Proposed Approaches
2. Related Work
2.1. Architectural Design Review and Discussion
2.2. Spatial–Temporal Data Summarization Visualization
2.3. Summarization-to-Detail Exploration and Visualization
3. System Design and Description
3.1. Overview
3.2. Summarization Visualization
3.2.1. Minimap and Spatial Summarization Visualization
3.2.2. Timeline and Temporal Summarization Visualization
3.2.3. Branches
3.3. Filtering of Time Interval
3.4. Preview
3.5. Playback
3.6. Gesture-Based Interaction and User Interface
3.7. An Example Scenario
4. User Evaluation
4.1. Participants
4.2. Course Material
4.3. Study Design
4.4. Procedure
4.5. Quantitative Results and Discussion
4.5.1. Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ)
4.5.2. NASA TLX Questionnaire
4.5.3. Presence and Co-Presence Questionnaire
4.5.4. System Usability Satisfaction Questionnaire
4.5.5. System Evaluation Questionnaire
4.5.6. System Overall Evaluation
4.5.7. System Interactive Functionality
4.5.8. Learning Effectiveness Assessment
4.6. Discussion of Qualitative and Quantitative Results
5. Conclusions and Future Works
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Chang, H.-M.; Hsu, T.-W.; Tsai, M.-H.; Babu, S.V.; Chuang, J.-H. Design and Evaluation of an Asynchronous VR Exploration System for Architectural Design Discussion Content. Virtual Worlds 2024, 3, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds3010001
Chang H-M, Hsu T-W, Tsai M-H, Babu SV, Chuang J-H. Design and Evaluation of an Asynchronous VR Exploration System for Architectural Design Discussion Content. Virtual Worlds. 2024; 3(1):1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds3010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleChang, Hsuan-Ming, Ting-Wei Hsu, Ming-Han Tsai, Sabarish V. Babu, and Jung-Hong Chuang. 2024. "Design and Evaluation of an Asynchronous VR Exploration System for Architectural Design Discussion Content" Virtual Worlds 3, no. 1: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds3010001