Title
Designing and evaluating a workstation in real and virtual environment: toward virtual reality based ergonomic design sessions
Abstract
This paper adresses the issue of properly designing a digital mock-up (DMU) to be used in an experiment comparing simulated assembly tasks in both real and virtual environments. Motivations and specifications relative to the experiment are reported, and the design process of the DMU is described and illustrated. Recommendations are proposed with a particular focus on specificities relative to the use of a DMU as a support for both manufacturing and virtual reality—3D visualisation and interaction. A subjective evaluation of Real (RE), Virtual (VE), and Virtual with Force Feedback (VEF) environments is provided. Results indicate a real sensory and difficulty gap between RE and VEF, whereas a smaller difference was observed between RE and VE. In further improvements of scale-1 (where the objects in VE have the same size as in the real environment), co-localized simulation using haptic devices are warranted to fill in this gap. Results also highlight the impact of cognition and sensory feedback on user’s feeling and presence sensation. Applications of such numerical designs are presented in the last section, especially focusing on collaborative design sessions. Virtual Reality based evaluation of newly designed workstations will be a way in the future to improve design and user learning processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s12193-013-0138-8
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fidelity,Sensor-bridging,Sensor-sharing,Virtual reality,Interaction
Fidelity,Virtual reality,Virtual machine,Computer science,Visualization,Workstation,Human–computer interaction,Engineering design process,Multimedia,Haptic technology,Instructional simulation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
2
1783-7677
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.49
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charles Pontonnier1275.02
Georges Dumont28410.77
asfhin samani360.49
Pascal Madeleine4184.30
Marwan Badawi581.19