VR-UML: The Unified Modeling Language in Virtual Reality – An Immersive Modeling Experience
- Software models in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can been created or automatically reverse-engineered and used for quickly gaining structural insights into larger, legacy, or unfamiliar software. But as the size, structural complexity, and interdependencies between software components in larger systems grows, two-dimensional viewing and modeling has limitations, and new ways of visualizing larger models and numerous associated diagrams of different types are needed to intuitively convey structural and relational insights. To investigate the feasibility of using Virtual Reality (VR) to create an immersive UML-based software modeling experience, this paper contributes a VR solution concept for visualizing, navigating, modeling, and interacting with software models using UML notation. An implementation shows its feasibility while an empirical evaluation highlights its potential.
Author: | Roy OberhauserORCiD |
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Institutional Author: | Roy Oberhauser |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:944-opus4-12888 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79976-2_3 |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-79975-5 |
Source Title (English): | Business Modeling and Software Design in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing |
Conference Name: | BMSD 2021 |
Conference Date: | 5-7 Juli |
Conference Place: | Sophia, Bulgaria |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Cham |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Release Date: | 2021/08/05 |
Tag: | Software Modeling; UML Tools; Unified Modeling Language; Virtual Reality; Visualization |
Number of Pages: | 19 |
First Page: | 40 |
Last Page: | 58 |
Faculty: | Elektronik und Informatik |
DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft |
Open Access: | Closed Access |