An enriched visit to the botanical garden

Bettelli, Alice; Orso, Valeria; Pluchino, Patrik; Gamberini, Luciano

doi:10.1145/3351995.3352034

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“…Sample size: Many study reviews have limited participants involved in their research scope. For example, the sample size is derived from older samples due to a challenge to attain authority on younger samples [41] and is constrained to a selective group of population [42]. Respondents from different backgrounds and different age groups differ from how much they feel being immersed and generally also feel being present physically in the virtual world.…”

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Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) is at its maturity level for real practical exercises amongst many fields of studies, especially in the virtual walkthrough exploration system of cultural heritage (CH). However, this study remains scattered and limited. This work presents a systematic review that maps out the usability and accessibility issues that are challenging in using VR in CH. We identified 45 challenges that are mapped into five problem groups: system design, development process, technology, assessment process and knowledge transfer. This mapping is then used to propose 58 recommendations to improve the usability and accessibility of VR in CH that are categorized in three different recommendation groups namely, discovery and planning, design and development, and finally the assessment factors. This analysis identified the persistence in certain accessibility and usability problems such as there is a limit in navigating the view and space that constraint the users’ free movement and the navigation control is not ideal with the keyboard arrow button. This work is important because it provides an overview of usability and accessibility based challenges that are faced in applying, developing, deploying and assessing VR in the usage of digitalizing CH and proposed a great number of constructive recommendations to guide future studies. The main contribution of this paper is the mapping of usability and accessibility challenges into categories and the development of recommendations based on the identified problems.

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“…• Did not consider user prior experience and users' understanding towards technology [41]; • Younger kid samples turned out to be more interesting compared to older samples [41].…”

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“…It was mainly used in mental health domain, to create virtual scenarios to facilitate psychological, cognitive, and behavioral interventions for dementia, anxiety disorder, eating disorders, pain management (Tabbaa et al, 2020), and fear of public speaking (Flobak et al, 2019). Co-design techniques have also been effectively applied to develop VR simulations and serious games to promote physical activity (Boger et al, 2018;Eisapour et al, 2020) and to enrich user experience in cultural and naturalistic site (Bettelli et al, 2019). Although co-design does not seem to have been applied in the field of virtual simulation of emergencies, it was still used to design virtual training to manage stressful situations, such as training for police forces in the field of close protection (Lukosch et al, 2012), reentry training for incarcerated women (Teng et al, 2019), and alcohol resistance training for adolescents (Lyk et al, 2020).…”

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“…Regarding the first point, several techniques were applied in the initial stages of requirements collection and/or experience planning, including affinity diagrams (Bettelli et al, 2019), brainstorming (Lukosch et al, 2012;Lyk et al, 2020;Tabbaa et al, 2020), focus group sessions (Boger et al, 2018;Eisapour et al, 2020), and interviews (Lukosch et al, 2012;Teng et al, 2019). Regarding the second point, these activities mainly involved end users (Lukosch et al, 2012;Teng et al, 2019) and/or experts in the specific application domain, for example kinesiologists for applications to promote physical activity (Eisapour et al, 2020) or managers of private security companies to design virtual training for police forces (Lukosch et al, 2012), while only few studies also involved experts in new technologies and HCI (Bettelli et al, 2019;Tabbaa et al, 2020). On the one hand, the codesign activity helped to obtain valuable feedback from experts (Eisapour et al, 2020), and to identify design recommendations for the specific application domain (Boger et al, 2018;Eisapour et al, 2020).…”

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“…From a methodological point of view, these works are very heterogeneous in both the co-design techniques used and the type of stakeholders who participated in the activities. Regarding the first point, several techniques were applied in the initial stages of requirements collection and/or experience planning, including affinity diagrams (Bettelli et al, 2019 ), brainstorming (Lukosch et al, 2012 ; Lyk et al, 2020 ; Tabbaa et al, 2020 ), focus group sessions (Boger et al, 2018 ; Eisapour et al, 2020 ), and interviews (Lukosch et al, 2012 ; Teng et al, 2019 ). Regarding the second point, these activities mainly involved end users (Lukosch et al, 2012 ; Teng et al, 2019 ) and/or experts in the specific application domain, for example kinesiologists for applications to promote physical activity (Eisapour et al, 2020 ) or managers of private security companies to design virtual training for police forces (Lukosch et al, 2012 ), while only few studies also involved experts in new technologies and HCI (Bettelli et al, 2019 ; Tabbaa et al, 2020 ).…”

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Designing “Safer Water.” A Virtual Reality Tool for the Safety and the Psychological Well-Being of Citizens Exposed to the Risk of Natural Disasters

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Virtual Reality (VR) is a popular technology to recreate reality-like scenarios, including dangerous ones, in a realistic but safe way. Because of this potential, VR based research has been applied in psychology studies to provide training and education about how to behave in emergencies such as fires, earthquakes, floods, or typhoons. All these different virtual scenarios have been built to observe how people react to emergencies, what behaviors they adopted, what level of stress is generated, and finally, how to increase citizens' safety. However, there is still little research that shows how Virtual Environment (VE) should be designed to convey appropriate social and psychological “cues” to participants. In this work, we present the result of a series of co-design sessions aiming to bring experts to collaborate in setting up virtual scenarios to increase the quality of life, safety perception, and risk awareness in people living in the proximity of a river. Floods are one of the most threatening climate events, and because of climate change, they are expected to become even more frequent. These disasters have a devastating impact on communities, increasing anxiety and stress levels in citizens living close to rivers. We involved relevant stakeholders to design “Safer Water,” an immersive, interactive, virtual experience to support citizens in psychologically and behaviorally managing pre and post riverbank breakdown situations. HCI experts, hydrogeological and hydraulic engineers, psychologists, and VEs designers took part in affinity diagram and brainstorming activities. Results show how the adopted method was able to generate suitable virtual scenarios, to highlight and classify relevant design requirements, and to find strategies that could improve the quality of life and psychological well-being in “risk-exposed citizens.” The discussion includes a set of open-access guidelines derived from the co-design activities, to support the design of VE for the purposes discussed in the paper.

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