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HyDE: A Hyper-Display Environment in Mixed and Virtual Reality and its Application in a Software Development Case Study
- While Virtual Reality (VR) has been applied to various domains to provide new visualization and interaction capabilities, enabling programmers to utilize VR for their software development and maintenance tasks has been insufficiently explored. In this paper, we present the Hyper-Display Environment (HyDE) in the form of a mixed-reality (HyDE-MR) or virtual reality (HyDE-VR) variant respectively, which provides simultaneous multiple operating system window visualization with integrated keyboard/mouse viewing and interaction using MR or in pure VR via a virtual keyboard. This paper applies HyDE in a software development case study as an alternative to typical non-VR Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), supporting software engineering tasks with multiple live screens in VR as an augmented virtuality. The MR solution concept enables programmers to benefit from VR visualization and virtually unlimited information displays while supporting their more natural keyboard interaction for basic code-centric tasks. Thus, developers can leverage VR paradigms and capabilities while directly interacting with their favorite tools to develop and maintain program code. A prototype implementation is described, with a case study demonstrating its feasibility and an initial empirical study showing its potential.
Author: | Roy OberhauserORCiD, Alexandre Matic, Camil PogolskiORCiD |
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Institutional Author: | Roy Oberhauser |
Institutional Author: | Alexandre Matic |
Institutional Author: | Camil Pogolski |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:944-opus4-3569 |
URL: | http://www.iariajournals.org/software/tocv11n12.html |
ISSN: | 1942-2628 |
Source Title (English): | International Journal on Advances in Software |
Publisher: | IARIA |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Release Date: | 2018/08/07 |
Tag: | augmented virtuality; integrated development environments; mixed reality; software engineering; virtual reality |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 & 2 |
Number of Pages: | 10 |
First Page: | 195 |
Last Page: | 204 |
Faculty: | Elektronik und Informatik |
DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft |
Open Access: | Open Access |
Relevance: | peer reviewed |