Evaluating User Experience in VR Applications
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Authors
Wilson, Michael Gregory
Issue Date
2025
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
HCI , User Studies , Virtual Reality
Alternative Title
Abstract
User studies are an important part of Human-computer interaction (HCI) research that, when designed well enough to answer a research question, can lead to successful outcomes and better use of development resources. Designing user studies can be a challenge, however. Despite going in with best intentions, the data collected may not capture the information needed to answer a research question. It's possible that confounding variables reveal themselves during the process of running a user study. In this thesis, two user studies involving Virtual Reality (VR) are run. Their designs are evaluated and discussed for their strengths and weaknesses toward answering the original research question. Then, a proposal for using a scaffolding approach to design a user study for learning a language in VR is explored. The scaffolding study reveals many insights into potential comfort and social prerequisites that need to be measured and potentially broken into a separate study.