Projects from HKUST COMP4461 - Human Computer Interaction
Presented by UST Gang Gang with all heart and passion
Gary Lam | Ada Kong | Don Ho | Callum Tam | Jay Tam | Ryan Chan
What is CarVR Expo ?
Virtual Career Expo
CarVR Expo is a virtual career expo on VR.
It combines various VR features with recruitment events to provide a hassle-less and intelligent job hunting experience to job seekers and employers. Here, you can find your job, and hire talents easier, and faster. Set up the virtual booths and conduct live interviews with participants!
Where did it start?
NEEDFINDING
Our group constructed 22 semi-structured interviews on what they wished to do on a
social Virtual Reality(VR) platform
Education - 17.9%
-
Attend online lessons that are interactive
-
Attend online workshops
-
Attend musical instruments class
Gathering - 6.3%
-
Match and date new friends
-
To find a lover
Entertainment - 21.1%
-
Have gaming time with friends on VR
-
Attend Music concerts with
-
Shopping
Outings
-
Do sports
-
Go virtual travel
Workplace - 29.5%
-
Hold/join skill training for work
-
Do job hunting
-
Attend conferences
Others - 6.3%
-
Religious meetings
Brainstorming
HTA FRAMEWROK
POV: USER PERSONA
POV: REPRESENTING GROUP
Universities
-
Connecting students and employers
-
Search for good opportunities for students
-
Trying to encourage students to be more active in approaching employers in various channels
Job Seekers
-
Looking for job opportunities worldwide
-
Tired of waiting days for interview invitation email
-
Feel difficult to find jobs in other countries
Employers
-
Hiring a number of talented people for a suitable positions
-
Scan and write requirements to different websites every day
MOSCOW Table
Must
Booths for different business
Real-time interaction
Booths for different business
Should
Instant interview
Instant audio chat
Walking around booths
Could
Document Sharing
Unlimited number of employers
Video playing
Won't
Privacy issues
Complicated UI
Real faces
HTA graph for seekers
HTA graph for employers
Existing Solutions - Pros & Cons
Pros
Cons
Web Searching
Study the companies in 3rd-parties' view
Scattered information
Walk-in
Observe the real working environment
Limited to local jobs
Social Media
Lots of temporary/part-time job opportunities
Realy see those large-scale companies
Physical Job Fair
Get in touch with big local companies
Mostly dominated by large-scale companies
STORYBOARD
Verification
SPEED DATING
Comments received from interviewees
"Will there just be too many companies that make me do not know what to look for"
"It may be noisy if every booth are playing some kind of video or music"
"Won't it be a bit boring if everyone are only playing music and video there?"
Existing Solutions
-
Web searching
-
Going to physical store
-
social Media
-
Physical job fairs
-
Unlimited companies & participants
-
Not local restricted
-
Immediate interview
Potential Improvement
-
Categorize companies into "Areas"
-
Intelligent volume adjusting function for media playing
-
Allow showing off 3D props/objects
Prototyping
Created with Hubs by Mozilla
 Guide participants: Mouse functions Usage of control keys As Interaction inputs |  Companies can set up their booths with: Informative videos Posters 3D models of their own products |  Participants can interact with companies via: Text Voice chat Upload documents (e.g. resume, photos, etc.) |
|---|---|---|
 Discover some photo taking spots Press “C” to enable camera Pin photos to share with other users |  - Employer’s speech - Instant p2p conversation - Small group discussion - User controls: Volumes |  Users can sit in the chosen position Click the “SPACEBAR” to join Can be occupied by others Face to assigned direction (e.g. User face to Staff) |
 - Videos about that company/job - User controls: Volume Play/Pause Backward/Forward Open the link |
Video Demo
User Evaluation
5 volunteers: 4 fresh graduates (target), 1 startup founder (proxy)
zoomeeting + Mozzila Hub spectator mode + Online Questionnaire
Participation & Reflection
This project is absolutely a fun project. Our group has put a lot of effort into building the scene and filming the video since we had to emulate a lot of stakeholders to make the demo look appealing. We worked well together and we are satisfied with our final product.
With all the experience and familiarization in the past projects, we all go through the need-finding and ideations quickly. I am responsible for needed findings and constructing POVs which I haven't taken the lead responsibility in the last 2 projects. It requires me to conduct semi-structured interviews with various people and sum up their needs from different perspectives.
I have also been involved in CarVR Expo environment prototyping in which we need to build a virtual job fair. It combines various VR features with recruitment events to provide a hassle-less and immersive job hunting experience to job seekers. We have to create some virtual booths and materials for the fair. It shows really well in the demo video, and appreciate the good production from our groupmates! The act is fun and it shows the whole picture of the entire work. Hopefully, this could inspire people to work more on VR and consider its possibilities to bring a smarter life to us
Summing up the entire course, I have learned deeper about tech production from a design perspective. The journey is fruitful. From need-findings to prototyping, we've earned so much hands-on experience. Building these works from scratch with my fellow groupmates is motivating and satisfying. Most of us are going to graduate from HKUST soon, and we are hoping to utilise these in our future works.