Paper Info
Title
Being there for real: presence in real and virtual environments and its relation to usability
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2639189.2639224
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
evaluation environments,presence,usability studies,user interfaces
Ecological validity,Pluralistic walkthrough,Virtual machine,Computer science,Usability,Cave automatic virtual environment,Usability lab,Human–computer interaction,Cognitive walkthrough,Multimedia,Learnability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.60
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Busch110710.67
Mario Lorenz241.11
Manfred Tscheligi32567570.72
Christina Hochleitner4295.53
Trenton Schulz5196.51