Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality
This addresses usability challenges for developers and users of AR software analytics tools, though it is incremental as it builds on existing state-of-the-art applications.
The study tackled usability problems in software analytics applications for immersive augmented reality by conducting an iterative qualitative evaluation with 15 subjects, identifying and resolving numerous issues primarily caused by conventional UI elements like dialog windows and buttons, while finding that a city visualization did not cause problems.
Software analytics in augmented reality (AR) is said to have great potential. One reason why this potential is not yet fully exploited may be usability problems of the AR user interfaces. We present an iterative and qualitative usability evaluation with 15 subjects of a state-of-the-art application for software analytics in AR. We could identify and resolve numerous usability issues. Most of them were caused by applying conventional user interface elements, such as dialog windows, buttons, and scrollbars. The used city visualization, however, did not cause any usability issues. Therefore, we argue that future work should focus on making conventional user interface elements in AR obsolete by integrating their functionality into the immersive visualization.