Sequential Evaluation

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Description

A sequential evaluation approach can be used to address the design and evaluation of VE interfaces/VE user interaction. This approach requires the participation of domain-specific representative users, application-specific guidelines and application-specific user tasks. A VE user interface can be developed by sequentially conducting a user task analysis, heuristic evaluation, formative evaluation and summative evaluation. There are often numerous iterations within each evaluation phase or iterations of applying various evaluation phases sequentially, resulting in an improved VE user interface

Primary Reference or Source

• Gabbard, J., Hix, D., and Swan, E. (1999a). User-centred design and evaluation of virtual environments. IEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 19, 51-59

• Bowman, D., Gabbard, J.L., and Hix, D. (2002). A survey of usability evaluation in virtual environments: classification and comparison of methods. Presence Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 11(4), 404-424.

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