Mixed Reality System for tracking of 1:100 scale buildings in a town planning scenario

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Mixed Reality System for tracking of 1100 scale
buildings in a town planning scenario

• Roy C. Davies
• Lund University, Sweden.

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Participants

• Roy C. Davies
• Dept of Design Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
• RE-FLEX, flexible reality centre, Lund
  University, Sweden
• Elisabeth Hornyanszky Dalholm, Birgitta Rydberg
  Mitchell
• Dept of Architecture, Lund University, Sweden
• Torsten Persson
• City of Malmö, Division of Real Estate, Property
  Development
• http//www.reflex.lth.se/design/datw

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Presentation will include

• Background and History
• Aims
• Methodology
• Technology
• Preliminary Results
• Conclusions

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RE-FLEX

• A technology and expertise resource centre
  combining Lund University, the Technical Faculty
  (LTH) and Lund University Hospital working for
  the benefit of society in the Skåne and Öresund
  regions where the focus is on people, democracy
  and solving real-world problems.

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Finding the most appropriate technologyfor the
users and the task.
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UsabilityFlexibilityDiversityCollaboration
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Members

• Department of Architecture and Development
  Studies
• Building Function Analysis
• Division of Structural Mechanics
• Design Methodology
• Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research
• Cognitive Science
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Automatic Control
• Environmental Psychology
• Division of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology
• Forensic Medicine
• GIS Centre
• Informatics

• Division of Industrial Design
• Institution of Informatics
• Landscape Architecture
• Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology
• Division of Machine Design
• Centre for Mathematical Sciences
• Division of Packaging Logisitics
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Rehabilitation, Lund-Orup
• Division of Robotics - Mechanical Engineering
• Traffic and Road, Dept of Technology and Society
• Vestibular Laboratory

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A Central Resource for the Region
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The Full Scale Modelling Lab(which can also be
used for other scale models as well...)
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Design _at_ Work

• Multidisciplinary Research Group
• Architecture, Design, Drama, Psychology,
  Informatics, Ergonomics, Computer Science, Human
  Computer Interaction, Participatory Design
• Formed about 7 years ago
• Active until about 2 years ago
• Less active now, but still talking to each other
• New projects to continue from previous work

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Working in the Fullscale Lab
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Participatory Design

• Involving all the people connected to a design
  change (end users)
• Tacit Knowledge
• Communities of Practice
• Design by doing
• Supporting Collaboration and Communication

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Envisionment Workshop

• A toolbox with various tools and methods of usage
  for participatory design
• Full Scale Modelling, Drama, Virtual Reality,
  Democratic Meeting Techniques
• Integration of the tools

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Aims

• To further improve the integration of the
  physical models with the virtual environments.
• To use and refine this new tool through real
  design situations.

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Object

• Sege Park, an area of Malmö with existing
  buildings and a park-like feeling that is to be
  preserved.
• Situation a gentrification of the area is in
  progress with renovations and new buildings being
  discussed and built.

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Methodology

• A Case Study
• Iterative Prototyping
• User Centered Design
• Prototype testing through real situations
• Observations
• Feedback from the test subjects

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Technology

• Wood, Cardboard, Paper, Glue
• VICON Optical Tracking System
• Modified for rigid body tracking
• Virtual Reality System with double projectors and
  Passive Stereo Capabilities

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Testing a prototype
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Preliminary Results
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Conclusions

• And future work
• Where to now?

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Questions ?http//www.reflex.lth.se/design/datw