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VREUD -- An End-User Development Tool to Simplify the Creation of Interactive VR Scenes
Recent advances in Virtual Reality (VR) technology and the increased
availability of VR-equipped devices enable a wide range of consumer-oriented
applications. For novice developers, however, creating interactive scenes for
VR applications is a complex and cumbersome task that requires high technical
knowledge which is often missing. This hinders the potential of enabling
novices to create, modify, and execute their own interactive VR scenes.
Although recent authoring tools for interactive VR scenes are promising, most
of them focus on expert professionals as the target group and neglect the
novices with low programming knowledge. To lower the entry barrier, we provide
an open-source web-based End-User Development (EUD) tool, called VREUD, that
supports the rapid construction and execution of interactive VR scenes.
Concerning construction, VREUD enables the specification of the VR scene
including interactions and tasks. Furthermore, VREUD supports the execution and
immersive experience of the created interactive VR scenes on VR head-mounted
displays. Based on a user study, we have analyzed the effectiveness,
efficiency, and user satisfaction of VREUD which shows promising results to
empower novices in creating their interactive VR scenes.Comment: Preprint - accepted at IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and
Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2021