Sean Jiang

Title: Usable Interaction for Generic Menu Navigation in Virtual Reality

Supervision Team: Hyowon Lee, DCU / Brendan Rooney, UCD

Description:  There are many demonstration systems of VR technology in various fields today, but there is a considerable lack of standardized, agreed-upon or proven generic menu navigation interaction within a VR environment resulting in poor usability and user-experience (UX) in most of these demonstration systems. Without offering more usable menu interaction through better understanding of the special characteristics of VR interaction and the affordances it entails, VR devices and tech demos have little chance of becoming a truly ubiquitous interaction platform as its desktop and mobile counterparts. This project will develop usability principles/design guidelines for VR interactivity especially focusing on a generic menu navigation within the VR environment, with a set of usable menu navigation strategies and accompanying suite of UIs for them, both co-evolving and co-refined through a series of design-centric iterations of design-prototyping-testing cycles. Interest in usability, design portfolio of UI/UX projects or any other design-focused practices along with the technical competency to implement those designs is desirable