Apparatus and method for evaluating equipment operability, and equipment operability evaluating program

A method for evaluating equipment operability for evaluating operability of equipment using an apparatus for evaluating equipment operability, comprising:

• managing body information about a human body model as a copy of a shape of a human body;
• managing visual identification information as information about a sight line of the human body model;
• managing a human body part of the human body model and a target position to which the human body part is to be moved as target information;
• setting a plurality of supposed operations each of which is a supposed operation of the equipment as associated with the visual identification information and the target information;
• calculating a posture of the human body model which performs the set supposed operation based on the body information about the specified human body model and at least the target information corresponding to the set supposed operation;
• arranging an equipment model as a copy of a shape of the equipment and the human body model having the calculated posture in a three-dimensional virtual space, and displaying a view image as an image of the three-dimensional virtual space from a point of view of the human body model having the posture;
• recording an operation result of the equipment model based on an inputted operation information about the equipment model on the view image;
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• evaluating the operability of the equipment based on the recorded operation result of the equipment model.

An equipment operability evaluating program for evaluating operability of equipment, the program causing a computer to execute:

• managing body information about a human body model as a copy of a shape of a human body;
• managing visual identification information as information about a sight line of the human body model;
• managing a human body part of the human body model and a target position to which the human body part is to be moved as target information;
• setting a plurality of supposed operations each of which is a supposed operation of the equipment as associated with the visual identification information and the target information;
• calculating a posture of the human body model which performs the set supposed operation based on the body information about the specified human body model and at least the target information corresponding to the set supposed operation;
• arranging an equipment model as a copy of a shape of the equipment and the human body model having the calculated posture in a three-dimensional virtual space, and displaying a view image as an image of the three-dimensional virtual space from a point of view of the human body model having the posture;
• recording an operation result of the equipment model based on an inputted operation information about the equipment model on the view image;
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• evaluating the operability of the equipment based on the recorded operation result of the equipment model.

A computer readable recording medium recording a program for evaluating operability of equipment, the program causing a computer to execute:

• managing body information about a human body model as a copy of a shape of a human body;
• managing visual identification information as information about a sight line of the human body model;
• managing a human body part of the human body model and a target position to which the human body part is to be moved as target information;
• setting a plurality of supposed operations each of which is a supposed operation of the equipment as associated with the visual identification information and the target information;
• calculating a posture of the human body model which performs the set supposed operation based on the body information about the specified human body model and at least the target information corresponding to the set supposed operation;
• arranging an equipment model as a copy of a shape of the equipment and the human body model having the calculated posture in a three-dimensional virtual space, and displaying a view image as an image of the three-dimensional virtual space from a point of view of the human body model having the posture;
• recording an operation result of the equipment model based on an inputted operation information about the equipment model on the view image;
• and
• evaluating the operability of the equipment based on the recorded operation result of the equipment model.