Discussing Your Needs in VR: A Novel Approach through Persona-based Stakeholder Role-Playing

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for requirements discussions in VR using automatically generated personas from speech data, enhancing social presence and reducing workload during stakeholder role-playing.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to support requirements discussions in VR by generating personas from speech-to-text data, improving interaction and efficiency.

Findings

Participants reported high satisfaction with social presence and usability.

Requirements discussions with personas had lower workload.

The approach shows promise for enhancing stakeholder engagement in VR.

Abstract

In this study, we propose a novel approach that supports requirements discussions in virtual environments by automatically generating personas from real-time speech-to-text data. In our pilot experiment, 18 participants (14 from universities and 4 from IT companies) used the generated personas to discuss accessibility requirements within the virtual environment. Participants reported a relatively high level of satisfaction with the social presence and usability of the VR system. We also found that requirements discussions based on personas have a lower workload. Finally, we outline the main directions for future work.