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User-Centered Design and Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Environments

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Iterative design; Project management; Project planning; Requirements analysis; Requirements specification; Usability design and evaluation; User-centered design and evaluation; Virtual reality development methodology

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User-driven development framework for virtual reality setups: a development methodology for virtual reality systems, that puts the user central in a cyclical development process, iteratively clarifying the usability goals for the setup in terms of the user, system, and organizational characteristics and needs, and systematically matching these onto the technologies, interfaces, and processes to be developed, in order to achieve a time- and cost-effective development process, and a VR Setup with a satisfactory user experience, with efficient task and workflow, giving extensive attention at each stage of the design process to evaluating the user experience and user interface.

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  • Eastgate, R., Wilson, J., D’Cruz, M.: Structured development of virtual environments. In: Hale, K.S., Stanney, K.M. (eds.) Handbook of Virtual Environments; Design, Implementations, and Applications, 2nd edn, pp. 353–390. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton (2014)

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  1. Center for Simulation and Visualization, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam

    Jolanda G. Tromp, Chung V. Le & Tho L. Nguyen

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  1. Jolanda G. Tromp
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Correspondence to Jolanda G. Tromp .

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  1. Newton Lee Laboratories, LLC, Tujunga, California, USA

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Tromp, J.G., Le, C.V., Nguyen, T.L. (2018). User-Centered Design and Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Environments. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_167-1

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