The Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality on Visualisation for a Design Review in Construction

Bassanino, May; Wu, Kuo-Cheng; Yao, Jialiang; Khosrowshahi, Farzad; Fernando, Terrence; Skjærbæk, J

doi:10.1109/iv.2010.85

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“…Research works indicate that exploring a design proposal from a user perspective may be beneficial to evaluate its compliance against performance-based requirements, taking into account the needs of the prospective occupants that will use the building spaces based on their related functional destinations (Hilfert and König, 2016;Simeone et al, 2013;Shen and Shen, 2011). Several research works describe the use of VR in pre-occupancy evaluations in order to predict human-building interactions that can feed designers and researchers with reliable user behaviour and occupant-related data (Bassanino et al, 2010;Kuliga et al, 2015;Adi and Roberts, 2014;Heydarian et al, 2015a;Heydarian et al, 2015b, Heydarian et al, 2015cHeydarian et al, 2017). For example, Heydarian et al (2015a) used immersive virtual environments to collect data on behaviours and preferences of occupants in relation to lighting conditions and so evaluating design options aiming to both meet their lighting preferences and, at the same time, increase the energy efficiency of the building.…”

Section: Immersive Virtual Reality In Usability-focused Design Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A design review session protocol for the implementation of immersive virtual reality in usability-focused analysis

Ventura¹,

Castronovo²,

Ciribini³

2020

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Research and applications related to Virtual Reality (VR) in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry are steadily increasing, being considered as one of the current trends in digital innovation. A convergence is currently on-going between Building Information Modelling (BIM), VR implementation and the soft landings principles, which highlight the need for a smooth transition from design to operation through the early involvement of clients and end-users. In particular, immersive virtual environments could allow stakeholders to experience the full-scale representation of a virtual facility prototype in an intuitive and engaging manner through immersion and sense of presence, promoting feedback collection during usability-focused design review meetings. On the other hand, despite the renewed interest in immersive VR, both technological and procedural challenges to its effective implementation still exist. The latter are within the scope of this study, which aims to address them in a systematic way as a comprehensive guideline for clients and design teams. This study describes the development of a VR-aided usability-focused design review session protocol for implementing immersive VR when clients and end-users are involved in design review meetings. It is the result of an inductive approach associated with qualitative research methods for data collection and data analysis. A case study has been selected as a main research method for facing the first step into the research problem. A further iteration of data collection and analysis was adopted to guarantee the validity of the research, including talks with experts and literature comparison. Finally, the session protocol has been developed in the form of a process map representing all the necessary phases and activities to consider for the effective adoption of immersive VR to evaluate design intents with clients and end-users. As a comprehensive summary, the session protocol fills a gap in the research on the adoption of virtual reality in the AEC industry, which was lacking a prescriptive and structured process to drive the effective use of this technology in collaborative meetings and decision-making processes.

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Section: Immersive Virtual Reality In Usability-focused Design Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A design review session protocol for the implementation of immersive virtual reality in usability-focused analysis

Ventura¹,

Castronovo²,

Ciribini³

2020

ITcon

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“…For example, results of the experimental part of the study conducted by Dunston et al [35] revealed that IVR led to the detection of shortcomings in hospital room layout concerning relationships between spatial properties, such as insufficient clearances between furniture elements or overdimensioned elements. Within the same domain, Bassanino et al [39] conducted design review case study concerned with a redesign of the bathroom for disabled people during which IVR allowed a wheelchair user to test the accessibility of the bathroom presented by the virtual mock-up.…”

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Spatial Perception of 3D CAD Model Dimensions and Affordances in Virtual Environments

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Design understanding and needed level of the accompanying spatial skills that enable it depend on information input provided by a visual representation of a design solution. During product development, designers use models to visually represent a design solution. These visual representations can be mediated by various technologies (for example, an immersive virtual reality (IVR) technology or 2D user interfaces such as a monitor display), providing designers with different types of information. Capabilities of an IVR technology such as stereopsis, eye-height reference, spatial updating, and multimodal interaction, have shown a potential to mitigate the cognitive load and the need for highly developed spatial skills enabling design understanding. Nevertheless, specific design understanding aspects for which IVR technology may be beneficial over conventional 2D user interfaces are yet to be clarified. The conducted experiment aimed to explore differences in designers' spatial perception of spatial properties and relations (affordances) of a design solution in virtual environments (VEs). The design solution was presented by a 3D CAD model in immersive virtual environment (IVE) and non-immersive virtual environment (nIVE). IVE was mediated using the IVR technology (head-mounted display; HMD), while nIVE using the conventional 2D user interface (a monitor display, a mouse, and a keyboard). Results indicate that engineering students more accurately perceive spatial properties in the IVE than nIVE. Besides, it is suggested that the likelihood of making the correct judgment of the affordance is similar in both VEs.

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“…For that reason, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) has been intensively investigated during the last decades [42]. Several tools and frameworks for developing virtual environments, such as VRJuggler [7], COVEN [38], AfreeCA [32] and Cospaces [3], have been developed to explore virtual meeting environments based on distributed Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Whilst these platforms have successfully demonstrated the potential of constructing distributed platforms for creating virtual meetings for remote teams [10], they have not given much attention to the industry context, requirements for multi-disciplinary team interaction, task analysis and the richness of the data required for conducting appropriate team activities, especially within the context of space exploration.…”

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Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning

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Fernando

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Multimed Tools Appl

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This paper presents the system architecture of a collaborative virtual environment in which distributed multidisciplinary teams involved in space exploration activities come together and explore areas of scientific interest of a planet for future missions. The aim is to reduce the current challenges of distributed scientific and engineering meetings that prevent the exploitation of their collaborative potential, as, at present, expertise, tools and datasets are fragmented. This paper investigates the functional characteristics of a software framework that addresses these challenges following the design science research methodology in the context of the space industry and research. An implementation of the proposed architecture and a validation process with end users, based on the execution of different use cases, are described. These use cases cover relevant aspects of real science analysis and operation, including planetary data visualization, as the system aims at being used in future European missions. This validation suggests that the system has the potential to enhance the way space scientists will conduct space science research in the future.

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The Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality on Visualisation for a Design Review in Construction

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Cited by 32 publications

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A design review session protocol for the implementation of immersive virtual reality in usability-focused analysis

A design review session protocol for the implementation of immersive virtual reality in usability-focused analysis

Spatial Perception of 3D CAD Model Dimensions and Affordances in Virtual Environments

Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning

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