ViSE - A Virtual Smart Environment for Usability Evaluation

• Main Authors: Propp, Stefan, Forbrig, Peter
• Other Authors: Institute of Computer Science, University of Rostock Germany, Regina Bernhaupt; Peter Forbrig; Jan Gulliksen; Marta Lárusdóttir
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: Model-based Usability Evaluation; Task Models; Smart Environment; [INFO.INFO-DL]Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01055197; https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01055197/document; https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01055197/file/s_p44_8.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16488-0_4

International audience Within the research field of HCI task models are widely used for model-based development of interactive systems. Recently introduced approaches applied task models further to model cooperative behaviour of people interacting in smart environments. However there is a lack of usability methods to support the needs of evaluations during a model-based development process for smart environments. Particularly during early stages of development building a prototypical environment for user evaluations is resource consuming. To overcome the challenges we present a process model and according tool support. We provide the virtual smart environment ViSE to conduct expert evaluations and user studies during a user-centred design process, supporting iterative evaluations.