Research on Evaluation of Cabin Design Based on Virtual Reality

Abstract

With the development and maturity of virtual reality technology, it has been rapidly developed in various fields, and it is also gradually promoted in the aviation field. The paper established an evaluation environment for the overall design of the cabin in the initial stage of civil aircraft based on the virtual reality technology, which supported designers to design and determine the overall parameters of the cabin in the virtual reality environment quickly, such as cabin division, seat arrangement, service facility layout, emergency exit layout, crew seats and rest area layout et al. At the same time, it provided designers with a virtual evaluation environment and method for the cabin general layout parameters design from the perspective of human factors, which was used to provide cabin designers and human factors experts with a rapidly changing virtual cabin at the initial stage of design, and supported them to complete cabin design and evaluation. And the paper chose cabin designers, human factors experts and passengers with rich design or flight experience, built an evaluation experiment of cabin virtual reality environment. The paper conducted human factors evaluation on the overall cabin design in the virtual reality environment, formed a cabin usability evaluation index system of human factors in the virtual reality environment, which was used to guide the application of virtual reality technology in cabin design and human factors design.