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Usability studies on building early stage architectural models in virtual reality
- Source :
- Automation in Construction. 103:104-116
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Despite its marked success in recent years, it is still not clear how Virtual Reality (VR) can assist architects at the early stages of ideation and design. In this paper, we approach VR to build and explore maquettes at different scales in early design stages. To this end we developed a VR environment where user interactions are supported by untethered, easy to operate, peripherals, using a mobile virtual reality headset to provide virtual immersion and simplified geometric information to create voxel-based maquettes. Usability studies with laypeople suggest that the proposed system is both easier to use and more effective [better suited] than current CAD software to rapidly create simplified models. Additionally, tests with architects have shown the system's potential to improve their toolset. This is partly due to VR combining real-time performance with immersive exploration of the content, where body-scale relationships become visible to support the creative process, allowing architects to become both builders and explores of spatial constructs.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
business.industry
Headset
0211 other engineering and technologies
020101 civil engineering
Usability
02 engineering and technology
Building and Construction
Virtual reality
Ideation
computer.software_genre
0201 civil engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Human–computer interaction
021105 building & construction
Immersion (virtual reality)
Computer Aided Design
business
computer
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09265805
- Volume :
- 103
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Automation in Construction
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cbecc3b417177ebfc9d6167500716477