Emerging Technologies for Health and Medicine

CHAPTER 6REVIEW OF VIRTUAL REALITY EVALUATION METHODS AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT TOOLS

M.A. MUNOZ¹, J.G. TROMP², CAI ZHUSHUN³

¹ University of Granada, Spain

² Duy Tan University, Vietnam

³ State University of New York, USA

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Abstract

This chapter describes how scientific experiments can help to make informed design choices for the Virtual Reality interface design and vice versa, Virtual Reality can help scientific research, such as psychotherapy and physiotherapy to improve medical treatment and understand the functions of the brain better in response to virtual experiences that aim to mimic the real-world experience, but can take place in the laboratory environment. The chapter consists of an overview of the steps in the process of developing a VR setup, showing where and how evaluations take place. It describes the Human-Computer Interaction design and evaluation methods, including psychophysiological measurements and tools, when they can be used, and it discusses some of the factors that can jeopardize the quality of experiments in VR

Keywords: Virtual Reality, Evaluation, Psychology, Neuroscience, Measurement tools.

6.1 Science Can Help Inform Virtual Reality Development

To achieve VR systems that are highly usable and satisfactory, a user-centred approach is employed in an iterative cycle of refinement of the design and evaluation of the new Virtual Reality (VR) setup. A user-centred approach to ...