Users´experience of a virtual reality architectural model compared with users´experience of the completed building.
Paper in proceeding, 2003

We have investigated how the employees of a company experienced a VR-model of an office building that was to be their future work place and how that VR-experience compared with the employees' experience of the completed building. About two years after the VR-showings the building was completed and the staff had moved into the building. The results for the employees who saw the VR-presentation for the Semantic environment description scale (SMB) comparing the experiences of the VR-model with the experiences of the completed real building suggested that the experience of the VR-model gave a fairly accurate representation of the experience of the real building However, the reactions to the VR-model were more appreciative after the VR-show as compared with when the VR-model was compared with the real building.

architectural models

experience

Semantic Environmental Scale

Virtual Reality

realism

Author

Claes Wernemyr

Chalmers, Department of Applied Building and Civil Engineering - Chalmers Lindholmen

Börje Westerdahl

Chalmers, Department of Applied Building and Civil Engineering - Chalmers Lindholmen

Mattias Roupé

Chalmers, Department of Applied Building and Civil Engineering - Chalmers Lindholmen

Kaj Suneson

Chalmers, Department of Mechanical Engineering - Chalmers Lindholmen

Carl Martin Allwood

University of Gothenburg

I Bártolo, P.J., G. Mitchell, A Mateus, F. Batista, J. Vasco, M. Correia, N. André, P. Lima, P. Novo, P. Custódio och P. Martinho (red.), Advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping. Proceedings of the 1st International conference on advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping, 1 – 4 October 2003, Leiria, Portugal.

363-370
972-99023-0-5 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Other Civil Engineering

ISBN

972-99023-0-5

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10/7/2017