PrismArch’s development team concluded to an outline of the evaluation plan and usability study of the platform’s immersive design environment, currently under development. All existing methods of evaluating a virtual reality platform, ways to capture and collect the information provided by the trial users and how to improve the different tools of PrismArch are analysed on our relative report recently released.
Different software methodologies are presented, along with the methods that the software testing modules are formed to deliver a successful product. The report defines an evaluation plan, usability study and analyses how to capture the data. Detailed descriptions and examples are given to clarify the intended goals while conducting the evaluation plan and usability study.
Further analysis on the quality and ethics is provided where there is also reference to the publication policy to support the arguments. To better facilitate the needs and understanding of what the evaluation plan and usability study shall cover, the usage scenarios described in previous research are reflected and the relevant AEC partners’ opinions on the evaluation plan and usability study should cover from their perspective.
You can download and read the full report here, under Deliverable 6.2 – Report on evaluation plan and usability study.