Empirical Evaluation Assistant Tool for 3D Interaction Techniques

Christophe Domingues (1) , Samir Otmane (1) , Frédéric Davesne (1) , Malik Mallem (1)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes

Designing usable and effective 3D Interaction Technique (3D IT) is very challenging for system developers and human factors specialists. Indeed, time consuming empirical evaluation is necessary to have an idea about the goodness of 3D IT at the end of its development lifecycle. This may induce a huge loss of time if the result appears to be under expectations at the end. We have developed an Empirical Evaluation Assistant (EEA) to rapidly gather significant feedbacks about the usability of 3D IT during its development lifecycle. Thus, it may be possible to enhance iteratively the 3D IT before it would be classically evaluated by ergonomics experts at the end of its development lifecycle. EEA has been used to gather feedbacks about a 3D IT developed at IBISC laboratory, called Follow-Me, which is still under study. Results show that EEA has permitted to refine some characteristics of this 3D IT.

Mots clés: Human computer interaction; 3D Interaction; Empirical evaluation; Usability

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Multimédia [cs.MM]; Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Robotique [cs.RO]

Christophe Domingues, Samir Otmane, Frédéric Davesne, Malik Mallem. Empirical Evaluation Assistant Tool for 3D Interaction Techniques. 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces Grenoble (ENACTIVE'07), 2007, Grenoble, France. pp.89--92. ⟨hal-00339460⟩