Amna Jusić, Emir Cogo, Ehlimana Cogo, Aya Ali Al Zayat
Supervisor(s): Selma Rizvić
University of Sarajevo
Abstract: Virtual manuals for the usage of different procedures re
quire a certain set of steps, for the users to familiarize
themselves with the procedures required to use a set of de
sired objects. Apart from the textual information, it is also
important to present different types of spatial information
at the same time, while also including the direction of this
type of information. Usually, a set of operations needs to
be visualized by presenting the key locations of the oper
ations, the order of operations, and their motion. Some
operations require pulling, twisting, pushing, pressing, or
some combination of these motions in different places at
the same time. It is often important to test how much
the user learned about all of the presented operations, to
verify that the user can operate the procedure safely and
successfully without supervision. In this paper, we ana
lyze different visualization methods for multiple types of
information by using animated 3D arrows. These arrows
can present information by using gradient colors, shapes,
sizes, and rotations of shapes, as well as shape animations
in the desired direction. The proposed approach was suc
cessfully applied to create a virtual usage manual for a
set of operations of a procedure. A virtual quiz that veri
f
ies whether the user learned all of the required steps was
created. The quiz also requires the user to visually show
the required operation motion. A small user survey was
conducted, indicating that younger, highly educated age
groups are more open to the usage of virtual manuals and
that users find virtual quizzes helpful but are not confident
that they possess the digital skills necessary for undertak
ing them.
Keywords: Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, VR
Full text: Year: 2024
