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23/01/2023

German-Austrian project D-TRAS represented with article and presentation at HICSS-2023

The annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the worldwide longest running scientific conference in the field of information technology management. The D-TRAS project took part at the conference and presented own article "Towards Design Principles for Experimental Simulations in Virtual Reality – Learning from Driving Simulators".

D-TRAS bei HICSS-2023
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D-TRAS bei HICSS-2023

In experimental research, virtual reality (VR) technologies can serve as a tool to enable and conduct research, e.g. to study human behaviour in specific situations. A prime example is VR-based driving simulators, which enable automotive researchers to gather knowledge while reducing costs and complexity compared to field studies with real cars.

The use of carefully designed VR-based experiments can provide researchers with deeper insights into human behaviour. Therefore, the D-TRAS article "Towards Design Principles for Experimental Simulations in Virtual Reality – Learning from Driving Simulators" derived general design principles for VR experiments based on the literature on VR-based driving simulations. In particular, the literature on warning simulators, that is particularly important for D-TRAS project, is used for this purpose.