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Authors:
Minna Pakanen
Leena Arhippainen
Seamus Hickey
Keywords: visual design; user experience; 3D GUI; touch screen tablet device; HCI; self-expression method
Abstract:
This article focuses on a possibility to have a personal three dimensional graphical user interface inside a virtual environment on a tablet device. We describe the visual design process and early phase user experience evaluation of four 3D GUIs in a virtual environment. A user evaluation was conducted by using a structured pair evaluation procedure, where we adapted the concept walkthrough method with non-functional visually high quality prototypes. In addition, we conducted a self-expression task, where participants were able to draw their idea of a 3D GUI on a touch screen tablet device. This evaluation provided us a lot of user feedback for the design, which we utilized in the final iterated designs. In addition, we point out many design issues relating to the visual design of the personal GUI in virtual environments in a touch screen context. Our user evaluation indicated that participants would like to have their personal 3D GUI in a virtual environment. However, the visual design of the 3D GUI should create a secure and private feeling for them. Also, participants did not want the GUI to occlude excessively with the background. The visual indication is needed also when a user transfers items from a personal GUI to the virtual environment and for showing the user's active position between the GUI and virtual environment. We took all of these and other aspects into account when we designed the final iterated designs, which are also introduced in this article.
Pages: 266 to 278
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2013
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679