3d display interfaces in web applications: development and performance evaluation

• Autores: Aleksei Chistiakov
• Directores de la Tesis: Enric Martí Gòdia (dir. tes.) , María Teresa Soto Sanfiel (dir. tes.) , Jordi Carrabina Bordoll (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2018
• Idioma: español
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  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TESEO
• Resumen

  • The expanse of the web technology made it nearly a synonym of "ubiquitous". Due to its open nature, the Web became one of the most popular platforms among developers currently available. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine a modern application without any relation to the Web services. At the same time, the industrial and academic interest towards the stereoscopic displays draws a substantial boost from the recent virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and the head-mounted displays (HMD) technology boom. VR technology strongly relies on the stereoscopic effect, for it is proven to increase the level of immersion and the emotional impact of the user experience (UX). Thus, the collision of the stereoscopic display and the web technologies was imminent and brought tremendous possibilities for both. The objective of the hereby research is to explore these possibilities.

    Throughout the course of the research, several contributions were made. Initially, we detected a significant impact of the stereoscopic effect on the gaze distribution typical for a conventional search engine results page, thus driven our research effort in the earlier defined direction. Further, we tackled the absence of tools for effective facilitation of the stereoscopic effect on a front-end of the web applications by proposing a transformation matrix and consequently developing a tool basing solely on the current web-technology. For a better understanding of the impact of the stereoscopic depth on the usability, we designed a statistical method for estimation of the objective learnability of software systems. The research was concluded by a discovery of a mostly negative impact of the stereoscopic effect on the usability of an e-commerce desktop web application. The study among 40 human subjects found a negative impact on 2 out of 3 usability factors under test.