The use of multi-sensory feedback to improve the usability of a virtual assembly environment

Authors:
Ying Zhang;Adrian R. L. Travis
Affiliations:
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Venue:
VSMM'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents the usability evaluation of our developed multi-sensory Virtual Assembly Environment (VAE). The evaluation is conducted by using its three attributes: 1) efficiency of use; 2) user’s satisfaction; and 3) reliability in use. These are addressed by using task completion times (TCTs), questionnaires, and human performance error rates (HPERs), respectively. A peg-in-a-hole and a Sener electronic box assembly tasks have been used as the task cases to perform the experiments, using sixteen participants. The experimental outcomes are analysed and discussed.