Master Thesis in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Nowadays, existing approaches for creating Extended Reality (XR) experiences mostly entail the use of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) or software libraries (APIs), while the adoption of a high-level approach – allowing to abstract from the implementation – is however confined to technology-dependent methods or close descendants of standard meta-models. What is needed, therefore, is a universal model that allows XR applications to be designed at the conceptual level, without relying on solutions that are domain-specific or that exclude non-programmers from designing. This thesis presents the XRM Model, a theoretical approach oriented towards the conceptualisation of XR experiences, developed from a comparative study of existing models in the literature. The XRM Model is adopted for the implementation of a High-Level Editor to support XR application designers, which was validated in a usability test with users based on the ISO 9241-11 standard. In conclusion, an experience designed for an archaeological complex was considered as a case study in order to show the benefits resulting from the adoption of the XRM and the ART Editor.
Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Extended Reality; Conceptual Modelling; Authoring tools; Tourism; Cultural Heritage
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Stefano Formicola - @ste7en
Fabiana Ferrara - @fabif11
