Refine
Year of publication
- 2019 (223) (remove)
Document Type
- Conference Proceeding (100)
- Article (90)
- Book (15)
- Doctoral Thesis (7)
- Part of a Book (4)
- Report (4)
- Patent (2)
- Other (1)
Language
- English (117)
- German (102)
- Multiple languages (4)
Has Fulltext
- no (223) (remove)
Keywords
- Additive Manufacturing (2)
- Electrophoresis, Capillary/instrumentation/methods (2)
- Humans (2)
- 3D-printing (1)
- 3D-printing of optics (1)
- 610 Medical sciences (1)
- Accounting (1)
- Aged (1)
- Amines/chemistry (1)
- Ammonium Compounds/chemistry (1)
Institute
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften (81)
- Maschinenbau und Werkstofftechnik (64)
- Optik und Mechatronik (35)
- Elektronik und Informatik (18)
- Chemie (15)
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.