Activity breakdowns in QuickTime Virtual Reality environments

Author

Norris, Brian E. ; Wong, B. L William

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci., Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Recent research into virtual environments has identified difficulties that users have in navigating and searching for objects within a QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) environment. Through the use of activity theory, the location and size of QTVR hotspots were identified as causing a breakdown between what the user expected to happen and what actually happened. This subsequently caused a focus shift from within the environment, out to the interface tool in order to try and overcome this breakdown. These breakdowns were the result of the environment design process. Careful planning of the environment is needed to greatly reduce these breakdowns

Keywords

human factors; user interfaces; virtual reality; QTVR; QuickTime Virtual Reality; activity theory; planning; research; user interface; virtual environments; Computer errors; Electric breakdown; Electrical capacitance tomography; Humans; Multimedia systems; Navigation; Testing; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

User Interface Conference, 2000. AUIC 2000. First Australasian

Conference_Location

Canberra, ACT

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0515-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUIC.2000.822068

Filename

822068