Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment

Glyn Lawson; Tessa Roper; Paul Herriotts; Louise Malcolm; Davide Salanitri

doi:10.1504/IJVD.2017.085456

Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment

Glyn Lawson, Tessa Roper, Paul Herriotts, Louise Malcolm, Davide Salanitri

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Abstract

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. A study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of perceptions of a car load space in a cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE). A total of 46 participants rated load space width, height, depth, usability and overall capacity after viewing either a virtual Range Rover Evoque in the CAVE or the real car. Participants were also asked to estimate how many 100 mm3 blocks could fit in the load space in width, depth or height. The only significant difference was in usability, which was rated higher in the CAVE. There was no systematic over- or under-estimation of distances in the virtual environment. The results suggest that virtual environments can be used for car load space design, particularly for estimates of size, but further work is required to be confident that subjective ratings of virtual properties are equivalent to those of real vehicles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	92-105
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Vehicle Design
Volume	74
Issue number	2
Early online date	25 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJVD.2017.085456
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Automotive
CAVE
Cave automatic virtual environment
Load space
Perception
VE
VR
Virtual environment
Virtual reality

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