Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Standardized Questionnaire for Assessing the User Experience in immersive Virtual Reality Environments

Abstract

The popularization of Virtual Reality (VR) has emphasized the need for a quick, inexpensive, and reliable evaluation of the User Experience (UX). So, we developed a standardized questionnaire in Brazilian Portuguese for assessing the UX in immersive VR, establishing a theoretical model of UX in VR, creating items from the content analysis of other questionnaires, and evaluating the items in a study with experts. The preliminary version of the questionnaire has 47 items divided into a series of components: usability, classic visual aesthetics, stimulation, presence, VR sickness, and emotions. These items will be fine-tuned after a pilot experiment, and the psychometric properties of the final questionnaire will be evaluated in a long-term experiment.