The Usability of Online Geographic Virtual Reality for Urban Planning

Zhang, Sisi; Moore, Antoni

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00515-7_14

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“…For “user-friendliness,” the literature indicates that the quality of VR systems being easy to use is a major element to gain user acceptance. As Zhang and Moore (2014) argue, when VR systems are simple, convenient and easy to use, user experience and satisfaction improve. “Interactivity” means that the ViewWH VR system has advantages for users to navigate, control and orient relevant devices, thus offering a better experience.…”

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“…Then, usability concerns the experience quality of using a tool. Recent studies have been fairly thorough in making explicit the usability variables relevant for VR systems (in particular: (Fang and Lin, 2019; Zhang and Moore, 2014)). For instance, Fang and Lin (2019) compared the usability differences of VR travel software programs, such as Google Street View, VeeR VR, and Sites in VR, for mobile phones.…”

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Factors influencing the performance of virtual reality in urban planning: Evidence from a View corridor Virtual Reality project, Beijing

Jiang

Geertman

Zhang

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Virtual reality (VR) technologies, as new forms of planning support systems (PSSs), are becoming increasingly vital to planning. However, there is a lack of empirical research on factors influencing VR’s supportive role from a user perspective, thus producing barriers to VR’s advancement in planning practices. This neglect motivates the focus of this study, in which we adapt relevant PSS theory to build a conceptual framework that examines factors influencing VR performance in an experience-based environment. Empirical data are gathered predominantly through students’ experiences with and evaluation of the “Viewing the Western Hills at Yinding Bridge” ( Yinding Guanshan) VR Project—a VR system developed to optimize the view corridor of Beijing’s Western Hills. The results show large variability in factors influencing VR performance. In general, the effects of six factors are significant, including 3D visualization, simulating real-world scenes, user-friendliness, interactivity, inspiring participants’ enthusiasm, and inspiring creative thinking. These factors are attributed to the functionality, usability and innovativeness dimensions of VR systems. This study concludes that to realize the supportive and useful role of VR in planning, at minimum, these six factors should be explicitly taken into account.

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Factors influencing the performance of virtual reality in urban planning: Evidence from a View corridor Virtual Reality project, Beijing

Jiang

Geertman

Zhang

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…Many others have highlighted the advantages of using VR for education, including learner satisfaction [3], improved motivation and problem-solving abilities [4,5], and the advantages of sensory-based learning [6][7][8]. Studies of using VR-based platforms for the acquisition of knowledge are now found across a wide range of disciplines, including medicine [9], rehabilitation [10], industrial training [11], evacuation plans [12], urban planning [13], journalism [14], sports [15], geometry [16], design [17], biology [18], physics [19], and engineering [20].…”

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The Influence of Immersive and Collaborative Virtual Environments in Improving Spatial Skills

et al. 2023

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The use of Virtual Reality (VR) is growing in popularity in educational contexts. In this work, we present a novel software application based on immersive VR in which users can interact simultaneously with a model in a shared virtual scene and maintain audiovisual communication. The 3D model-building activity within the application was designed to improve spatial skills. Twenty-nine industrial engineering students completed the modeling activity in groups of two or three. Post-test scores showed significant improvement over pre-test scores for both spatial tests used to measure the effectiveness of the instrument in improving spatial skills. Participants rated the application favorably in terms of usability and functionality. Results suggest that spatial training in a collaborative immersive virtual environment has the potential to be an effective approach to improving spatial skills.

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Urban Media Trends for Enabling Citizen Participation in Urban Planning: Old Wine in New Barrels?

Groot

Effing

Veenstra

2018

Electronic Participation

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In recent years, a plethora of new possibilities for interactive urban planning emerged, fuelled by the rise of smart cities. This paper studies the potential of urban media for reshaping the role of citizens in urban planning. Both the historical role that citizens have played in the development of neighbourhoods and the process of urban planning are presented from a literature review. Furthermore, present visions on urban planning and citizen participation in smart cities are reviewed. Lessons learned from this literature study, are confronted with six main trends in urban media from expert interviews. As a result, we deliver an overview that helps urban planners in neighbourhoods in order to profit from advantages of urban media while avoiding their risks. We found that the development of urban media could have both positive and negative effects with regard to citizen participation in urban planning in neighbourhoods.

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The Usability of Online Geographic Virtual Reality for Urban Planning

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Factors influencing the performance of virtual reality in urban planning: Evidence from a View corridor Virtual Reality project, Beijing

Factors influencing the performance of virtual reality in urban planning: Evidence from a View corridor Virtual Reality project, Beijing

The Influence of Immersive and Collaborative Virtual Environments in Improving Spatial Skills

Urban Media Trends for Enabling Citizen Participation in Urban Planning: Old Wine in New Barrels?

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