Towards Gamifying Software Structure Comprehension in Virtual Reality
- As the size of software program code bases in software development projects increases, insight into and comprehension of their underlying dependency structures presents a challenge for programmers. The increasing availability of virtual reality (VR) systems brings VR-based visualization of program code structures into practical reach for software developers and could support program comprehension and insight. However, the complete visual immersion with VR presents a cognitive burden and potential distractions. Applying gamification to such a VR visualization capability has hitherto been insufficiently investigated as to its potential motivation and program comprehension factors. This paper describes and evaluates a VR digital gamification approach for program code called VR Gamified Immersion in Software structures (VR-GaImS), which applies digital gamification to a multi-metaphor VR visualization of software program structures. The results of a preliminary empirical investigation utilizing our prototype indicate its potential to increase enjoyment and motivation, focus attention, and encourage the exploration of software structures.
Author: | Roy OberhauserORCiD, Carsten Lecon |
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Institutional Author: | Oberhauser, Roy |
Institutional Author: | Lecon, Carsten |
DOI: | https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.2316/J.2019.201-2873 |
ISSN: | 2561-1771 |
Source Title (English): | Mechatronic Systems and Control |
Publisher: | Actapress |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Release Date: | 2020/07/15 |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of Pages: | 7 |
Faculty: | Elektronik und Informatik |
DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft |
Relevance: | peer reviewed |