An evaluation for VR glasses system user experience: The influence factors of interactive operation and motion sickness. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yu, Mengli; Zhou, Ronggang; Wang, Huiwen; Zhao, Weihua
• Is Part Of: Applied ergonomics. Volume 74(2019)
• Page Start: 206
• Page End: 213
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: VR glasses system -- User experience evaluation -- Interactive operation -- Motion sickness; Human engineering -- Periodicals; 620.82
• DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.08.012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-6870

Abstract

Abstract: As a new type of Virtual Reality (VR) headset, VR glasses rise rapidly in a number of areas. It's essential to understand the importance of user experience (UX) on VR glasses design. This study aimed to develop questionnaires for evaluating VR glasses' UX, as well as to investigate the relationship between various UX variables. With using lab-based usability tests, this study analyzed participants' self-reports and performance based on testing eight VR glasses and seven mobile applications. A nine-item questionnaire and a ten-item questionnaire were successfully developed to measure VR glasses systems' UX quality in terms of hardware and application, respectively. Within a proposed UX evaluation framework, the perceived UX quality relative to VR glasses hardware emerged as a core predictor in predicting interactive operation performance, whereas the application UX perception was a significant predictor of motion sickness. Highlights: Two scales were developed for measuring VR glasses systems' user experience quality in terms of hardware and application. Perceived mobile application user experience was a strong predictor of motion sickness with using VR glasses. VR glasses hardware's user experience quality emerged as a strong predictor of interactive operation performance.