Early Results of a Usability Evaluation of Two Digital Human Model -based Ergonomic Software Applying Eye-Tracking Methodology Comparison of the usability of ViveLab and Jack software
Mária Babicsné-Horváth, Károly Hercegfi · 2019
Analysis software for ergonomics are more and more wide spread among researchers. There are various software for ergonomics available on the market, and it would be important to know which one to choose in various research tasks. Although data on the capabilities of the software can be found relatively easily, a comparison regarding their ease of use and the quality of their user interface cannot be found in the literature. In this article, the usability of two software were compared. A cloud based Hungarian software, ViveLab and the well-known Jack software was chosen. In addition to the traditional software usability testing technique based on screen and event recording and user camera, eye-tracking methodology was also applied. The goal of this research is to find out which software is more usable in different situations. The results were divisive and in some cases astonishing. We are not able to give a definite answer which software is easier to use. There were several cases when ViveLab was easier and almost as much cases when Jack. There are areas for improvement in both software. Our results can help researchers to choose software for their specific tasks. Furthermore, the results can give additional information on which user interface elements and concepts are worth to improve by developers of the ergonomic software, and, in some cases, may inspire developers of other 3D-based software in general.