TY  - CONF
A1  - Wegner, Konstantin
A1  - Seele, Sven
A1  - Buhler, Helmut
A1  - Misztal, Sebastian
A1  - Herpers, Rainer
A1  - Schild, Jonas
T1  - Comparison of Two Inventory Design Concepts in a Collaborative Virtual Reality Serious Game
T2  - Schouten, Markopoulos et al. (Eds.): Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '17 ). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 15-18, 2017
N2  - Inventory design in games is crucial when it comes to managing in-game items efficiently. In multi-user settings, an additional goal is to support awareness concerning a coplayer’s inventory and his/her available actions. Especially in virtual reality (VR), presence and immersion are vital aspects of the experience, suggesting real-world metaphors for interface design. The presented work examines two basic inventory paradigms: an abstract menu-based inventory and a metaphoric virtual belt. Both systems are implemented in a serious game prototype for paramedic training in VR, then evaluated in a between-group design study with paramedic trainees inexperienced in VR technology. While both solutions offer comparable usability and presence scores, the results suggest future optimization.
KW  - Multiuser
KW  - Virtual Environments
KW  - Usability
KW  - Inventory
KW  - Serious Games
KW  - Virtual Reality
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://pub.h-brs.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3374
SN  - 978-1-4503-5111-9
N1  - This work was carried out within the project EPICSAVE (FKZ 01PD15004A), which is being funded as part of the program Digitale Medien in der Beruflichen Bildung 2 by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the European Social Fonds (ESF).
SP  - 323
EP  - 329
PB  - ACM
ER  -