Using Mixed Reality (MR) to Improve On-Site Design Experience in Community Planning

In recent years, designing in existing environments has been consistently emphasized in community planning. However, practicing such on-site design is not easy for designers, because the current technical conditions do not allow virtual design objects into real environments for 3D visualization and...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2021-04, Vol.11 (7), p.3071
Main Authors: Dan, Yuze, Shen, Zhenjiang, Zhu, Yiyun, Huang, Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Community planning
Construction
Decisions
Design
Experiments
Interfaces
Judgments
Mixed reality
MR-DSS
on-site design accuracy
on-site design convenience
on-site design intuitiveness
Onsite
Perceptions
Personal computers
Remote computing
Software
Support systems
Technology
Urban planning
Virtual communities
Virtual reality
Visualization
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Summary:In recent years, designing in existing environments has been consistently emphasized in community planning. However, practicing such on-site design is not easy for designers, because the current technical conditions do not allow virtual design objects into real environments for 3D visualization and interaction. Thus, designers’ intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions are hardly supported. This paper explores the possibilities of using mixed reality (MR) technology to improve designers’ on-site design experiences in community planning. For this, we introduced an MR design support system (MR-DSS) for the interactive on-site 3D visualization of virtual design objects. With the MR-DSS, we performed a design experiment with sixteen participants in a typical on-site design scene of community planning. The results showed that the MR technology could provide designers with intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions, thus effectively improving their on-site design experiences.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app11073071