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International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Commuications, Networks and Systems & Workshops archive
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops table of contents

Marseille, France

SESSION: Technical program table of contents

Article No. 57

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-963-9799-20-2

Authors

Cristina V. Lopes	University of California, Irvine
Anton Popov	University of California, Irvine
Lorraine Kan	University of California, Irvine
Ricardo Morla	Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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: ICST
: INRIA

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium

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Immersive virtual world environments, such as Second Life™ (SL), have the potential to dramatically improve the process of analyzing usability within technically correct system simulations, long before the system is built. We report our findings with the SL simulation of a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system. The SL model and simulation were done according to the original technical specifications. In interacting with this simulation, the system designers were able to identify several usability issues that would have gone unnoticed in a non-immersive simulation environment. Namely: (1) a problem with the design of the offramp to the station; (2) further requirements for the design of the top of the vehicles, so that the suspended track is out of direct sight of the people inside; (3) further safety requirements for dealing with unexpected obstacles along the path.

While all of these issues would have been identified upon deployment of the physical prototype, the contribution of our work is to show how usability issues like these can now be identified much earlier, using simulations in a virtual world.

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