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The paper presents development process and studies of a digital, Virtual Reality based tool for assisting the decision making process in configuration 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 evaluation comparative to previous configuration methods available in the company. The assumed and presented methodology based on Knowledge-Based Engineering allowed to build and implement the tool very rapidly. The post-implementation 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.
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Górski, F., Lesik, M., Zawadzki, P., Buń, P., Wichniarek, R., Hamrol, A. (2017). Development and Studies on a Virtual Reality Configuration Tool for City Bus Driver Workplace. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_48
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