Development and studies on a virtual reality configuration tool for city bus driver workplace

Abstract

The paper presents development process and studies of a digital, Virtual Reality based tool for assisting the decision making process in configu ration of driver’s workplace in city buses. The development methodology is presented with an end result. The studies, carried out after implementation in an industrial company, were based on human-computer interaction tests and evalu ation comparative to previous configuration methods available in the company. The assumed and presented methodology based on Knowledge-Based Engi neering allowed to build and implement the tool very rapidly. The post-imple mentation studies allowed to find that employees of different divisions in a company perceive such a tool in very different ways, forming various directions of future development.