Virtual Experience user questionnaire

These are the answers of User ID #WSH101, registered in the Experience 553.

General user information

Age

What best describes your professional status?

For example : professor (full-time), professor (part-time or adjunct), graduate student, undergraduate student, retired, other.

Which best describes your primary field of research or study?

For example : theatre history/practice / french studies / eighteenth-century studies / literature / history / social sciences / non-academic.

How would you describe your experience in your field?

For example : Student / Emerging Scholar (~1-6 years in the profession) / Mid-career scholar (~7-15 years in the profession) / Senior Scholar (~15+ years in the profession) / Retired.

About the user interface

This part allows us to understand more about your experience with the user interface during your immersion in the virtual environment.

I think that I would like to use this system frequently

I found the system unnecessarily complex

I thought the system was easy to use

I think that I would need the support of a technical person to be able to use this system

I found the various functions in this system were well integrated

I thought there was too much inconsistency in this system

I would imagine that most people would learn to use this system very quickly

I found the system very cumbersome to use

I felt very confident using the system

I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this system

About image depth

The following questions allows us to understand how you were able to retrieve useful information during your experience.

I was able to access information I was interested in during the experience

I learned about the reconstructed space

I learned about the historical context of the environment

I felt overwhelmed by information

Being able to visualize documents helped me to understand the environment I was in

Being able to visualize documents helped me to understand the reconstruction of the environment

I feel that I have the ability to discuss the hypothesis behind the reconstruction of the environment

I found that this digital reconstruction is a faithful representation of historical reality

About academic use

This final part is aimed at understanding the potential use of our system in research and teaching.

Before using this system, how would you rate your feelinge about VR simulations in academic research?

How would you rate the potential for using this system in its current form for academic research?

How would you rate the potential for using this system in its current form for popularization of academic research?

How would you rate the potential for using this system in its current form for undergraduate instruction?

How would you rate the potential for using a system based on the principles of this simulation for your field of research?

How would you rate the potential for using this system in its current form for undergraduate instruction in your field?

Would you use a system based on these principles in your field?