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Authors:
Roy Oberhauser
Keywords: Systems Modeling Language (SysML); virtual reality; systems modeling; systems engineering; requirements traceability; test traceability; system testing; verification and validation
Abstract:
As systems grow in complexity, the interdisciplinary nature of systems engineering makes the visualization and comprehension of the underlying system models challenging for the various stakeholders. This, in turn, can affect validation and realization correctness. Furthermore, stakeholder collaboration is often hindered due to the lack of a common medium to access and convey these models, which are often partitioned across multiple 2D diagrams. This paper contributes VR-SysML, a solution concept for visualizing and interacting with Systems Modeling Language (SysML) models in Virtual Reality (VR). Our prototype realization shows its feasibility, and our evaluation results based on a case study shows its support for the various SysML diagram types in VR, cross-diagram element recognition via our Backplane Followers concept, and depicting further related (SysML and non-SysML) models side-by-side in VR.
Pages: 23 to 35
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2023. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2023
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2628