Users’ satisfaction in the design of shared office spaces is one of the important aspects that everyenterprise should seek. The research provides and validates a new mechanism that could be used in thedesign process of shared office spaces, by integrating the tool of Virtual Reality (VR) and User ExperienceDesign (UXD). The proposed mechanism consists of three phases. The first phase (the experimentarticulation) illustrates the correlation between the satisfaction factors of users and the physical setting ofshared office spaces. In the second phase (the experiment tool preparation), the research articulates theprograming scripts which are necessary for the users’ interaction in the experiment using the VR tool, calledUser Interaction Tool (UIT), where these scripts are: Mouvement Script; Rotation Script; Stretch Script;and Material Script. The third phase (the experiment implementation and tool evaluation) consists of threesteps; the first one is an oriented questionnaire for determining users’ needs in shared office space whileestablishing relative weight for every aspect, and the second step is the experiment implementation for anexisting office space to explore the suggested scenarios using the proposed tool, and the third step is crucialfor comparing between the existing design model and the deduced one from the proposed mechanism toevaluate the validity of the proposed tool. After testing the tool, the research finds that users’ satisfactionbefore the experiment is about 43.352 %, while it has been raised to 86.5825 % after using the proposedmechanism. Hence, the users’ satisfaction is almost doubled after using the virtual reality tool in the designprocess of office space design. |
