The BIMprove project participated in ECCE 2022 (European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics) in Kaiserslautern, Germany during 4-7 October 2022.

Marja Liinasuo, Senior Scientist in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and BIMprove Project Manager and Researcher, travelled to Kaiserslautern, Germany to participate in the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2022 (ECCE). She presented in the first session named “Virtual and augmented reality” during the first actual conference day.

In the session, Virtual Reality (VR) was presented in several contexts: studying dyslexia in a VR environment; VR reality interactions; the way VR can reduce stress when showing natural environments in VR; the effect of spatial sound on memory recall in VR; and the BIMprove related topic, how space can be packed in an unreal way in VR.

Marja had the chance to present a recently published scientific publication ‘’Remote Testing of an Augmented Reality system’’: a methodological paper showing how an Augmented Reality related study can be performed in having both remote and physically present test organisers.

The paper is now available!

Remote Testing of an Augmented Reality System

Authors: Marja Liinasuo, Timo Kuula, Vladimir Goriachev, Kaj Helin

ECCE ’22: Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics October 2022 Article No.: 3 Pages 1–4

 

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1145/3552327.3552337

ABSTRACT

Remote test settings have become more common due to COVID-19. Our paper presents two user tests focusing on the usability and user experience of an augmented reality-based solution, i.e., augmented reality system. We describe the proceeding of the tests from the perspective of what party has participated in the test in the same location as the test participant, i.e., locally, and what party remotely. The importance – or unimportance – of physical presence is contemplated from the perspective of the successfulness of the test. The physical presence of a person providing technical support to the test participant during the testing proved vital for the augmented reality related testing; the location of other test organisers appears more indifferent in this context.

The paper is now available!

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1145/3552327.3552337