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A Comparative Analysis of User Experience in Home Energy Saving Awareness Using Immersive Virtual Reality and Mobile Augmented Reality

몰입형 가상현실과 모바일 증강현실을 활용한 가정내 에너지절약 인지 경험 비교 연구

  • Choi, Sung Ho (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam Nat'l Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Myoung Hun (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam Nat'l Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Jae Yeol (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam Nat'l Univ.)
  • 최성호 (전남대학교 산업공학과) ;
  • 이명훈 (전남대학교 산업공학과) ;
  • 이재열 (전남대학교 산업공학과)
  • Received : 2016.08.30
  • Accepted : 2016.10.17
  • Published : 2016.12.01
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Abstract

VR and AR are widely used in many applications to provide more immersive visualization and natural interaction for learning and experiencing virtual but realistic tasks. Energy saving is considered as one of the most important issues throughout the world in order to overcome global warming and energy crisis. In particular, the awareness of home energy saving is regarded as a first step to deal with this issue. In this paper, we suggest a new learning environment using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for home energy saving experience. In particular, it presents a comparative study of the user experience in home energy awareness using immersive virtual reality and mobile augmented reality. The first person user experience using immersive VR wearing head mounted display (HMD) and the third person user experience using mobile AR are implemented and systematically compared with each other in terms of the learning effect of energy saving and qualitative usability. Implementation results will be given to show the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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