DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

métricas, comportamiento humano, HBT, realidad virtual, proyectos, toma de decisiones, pre-evaluación, metrics, human behaviour, HBT, virtual reality, projects, decision-making, pre-evaluation

Article type:

COLABORACION/COLLABORATION DAMR

Section:

COLLABORATIONS

Human behavior is analyzed to evaluate the functionality and efficiency of a public space. It was classically measured from surveys and observation, however, those measurements have some limitations. Firstly, they are subjective valuations and are influenced by the interviewer and/or the observer. In addition, the observation oblige us to make that evaluation subsequently, when the project has been executed. Nowadays, virtual reality resolves those problems as a result of its capacity to represent scenarios on a realistic, immersive and interactive way. It allows to analyze human behaviour before the execution of projects at a low cost and controlled way.

This article presents the methodological bases for a new platform for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments. It will assist in the decision-making process through the pre-evaluation of different spaces before being executed. An applicable methodology were explained from which metrics are created and it allows to optimize functionality and efficiency of a new construction or remodeling. This is a cross-wise platform and can be applied to any project where the human transit is a central element: commercial, cultural, dotacional or leisure spaces. Different applied examples in study were presented.

Keywords: metrics, human behaviour, HBT, virtual reality, projects, decision-making, pre-evaluation