Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment

Abstract

A study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of perceptions of a car load space in a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). A total of 46 participants rated load space width, height, depth, usability and overall capacity after viewing either a virtual Range Rover Evoque in the CAVE or the real car. Participants were also asked to estimate how many 100mm 3 blocks could fit in the load space in width, depth or height. The only significant difference was in usability, which was rated higher in the CAVE. There was no systematic over-or under-estimation of distances in the virtual environment. The results suggest that virtual environments can be used for car load space design, particularly for estimates of size, but further work is required to be confident that subjective ratings of virtual properties are equivalent to those of real vehicles.

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“…Interestingly, the results demonstrated a tendency for overestimation of distances in the cube VE. This result was not replicated by a further study [12] into perception of automotive load space in a VE. The authors compared subjective ratings of loadspace (height, width, depth, usability) and estimated the number of blocks that could be fit in the boot in a real car and a photorealistic representation of the same car in a CAVE.…”

“…The results showed significant differences in the usability ratings, attributed to difficulties imagining interacting with the VE. The block task demonstrated reasonable accuracy, particularly for width and depth [12]. Thus, despite a relatively similar task to that tested by [19], there must be differences in the VE or task which resulted in the differences in the perception of the distances.…”

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