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User Interfaces for Complex Engineering Software: Application of Virtual Reality |
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| Authors: | Mark Taylor John Miles Dino Bouchlaghem Chimay Anumba |
| Affiliation: | 1Postgraduate Student, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff Univ., The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K. 2Professor, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff Univ., The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K. E-mail: milesjc@cf.ac.uk 3Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Building, Loughborough Univ., Loughborough LE11 3TU, U.K. |
| Abstract: | IT systems for engineers are becoming more numerous and complex and will further proliferate in the future. It is infeasible to expect users to be trained to work with a plethora of systems, especially as many of them will only see occasional use. Therefore, in the near future, systems will need user interfaces that allow intuitive access and usage. This paper examines a new style of user interface based on virtual reality. |
| Keywords: | Interfaces Computer software Information technology (IT) |