Blaze Buster Augmented Reality Usability Evaluation

Firefighting training is one of the most important things in the career of firefighters, but there are many challenges encountered in traditional training. Such as limitations in simulation training, theoretical training, etc. Overcoming this, the Blaze Buster Augmented Reality (AR) application has been developed. This application provides insight and simulates extinguishing fires using extinguishers in realistic and immersive ways. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the usability of the Blaze Buster AR application and provide feedback that can improve the performance and effectiveness of this application. In this research, the method we will use is heuristic evaluation. We distributed questionnaires to 31 respondents of Bina Nusantara University students. The respondents will be divided into 3 groups, who have used AR-based applications, respondents who are aware of AR but have never interacted directly with AR-based applications, and respondents who do not know much about AR and have never used AR applications. After analyzing the questionnaire data, there was no significant difference between these three groups. Users are also easy to learn and use the application, as the evaluation score for learnability is the highest. While for effectiveness, it has the lowest score, indicating this application needs to develop further in the effectiveness of completing tasks. Overall, the Blaze Buster AR app has a good level of user satisfaction. Although some areas require development, this application is generally well received by users as a tool to perform simulations for firefighting training.