Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning
Extended reality (XR) technology is increasingly often considered in practical applications related to urban planning and smart city management. It offers many advantages as a new visualization technique that gives its users access to places that are not available in material space and a unique pers...
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| author | Michał Rzeszewski Matuesz Orylski |
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| description | Extended reality (XR) technology is increasingly often considered in practical applications related to urban planning and smart city management. It offers many advantages as a new visualization technique that gives its users access to places that are not available in material space and a unique perspective on existing objects. It can provide immersive multi-sensory experience that can induce emotional response in participatory planning. However, standard mode of implementation that relies on mobile phone applications and VR headsets has a disadvantage when it comes to availability and accessibility. Here we test the WebXR solution that can mitigate those problems. We have created six AR and VR environments that resembled common urban planning scenarios and conducted usability tests with people having planning and GIS background. Results indicate that WebXR can provide useful solution in urban planning when the interface and environment resemble common practices and situations encountered in real life. Environments that have introduced new digital affordances like AR measurements or semi-transparent walkable scale models were rated lower. Users evaluated presented environment as having high usability and expressed their positive attitude toward using XR in their professional practice mainly as a participatory and visualization tool. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efcfafd8e3514901be4638f9fcf270852023-11-22T23:35:50ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642021-10-01101172110.3390/ijgi10110721Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban PlanningMichał Rzeszewski0Matuesz Orylski1Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznań, PolandIndependent Researcher, 60-001 Poznań, PolandExtended reality (XR) technology is increasingly often considered in practical applications related to urban planning and smart city management. It offers many advantages as a new visualization technique that gives its users access to places that are not available in material space and a unique perspective on existing objects. It can provide immersive multi-sensory experience that can induce emotional response in participatory planning. However, standard mode of implementation that relies on mobile phone applications and VR headsets has a disadvantage when it comes to availability and accessibility. Here we test the WebXR solution that can mitigate those problems. We have created six AR and VR environments that resembled common urban planning scenarios and conducted usability tests with people having planning and GIS background. Results indicate that WebXR can provide useful solution in urban planning when the interface and environment resemble common practices and situations encountered in real life. Environments that have introduced new digital affordances like AR measurements or semi-transparent walkable scale models were rated lower. Users evaluated presented environment as having high usability and expressed their positive attitude toward using XR in their professional practice mainly as a participatory and visualization tool.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/11/721extended reality (XR)urban planningusability |
| spellingShingle | Michał Rzeszewski Matuesz Orylski Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information extended reality (XR) urban planning usability |
| title | Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning |
| title_full | Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning |
| title_fullStr | Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning |
| title_short | Usability of WebXR Visualizations in Urban Planning |
| title_sort | usability of webxr visualizations in urban planning |
| topic | extended reality (XR) urban planning usability |
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