Penn, Alan; Mottram, Chiron; Fatah gen. Schieck, Ava; Wittkämper, Michael; Störring, Moritz; Romell, Odd; Strothmann, Andreas; Penn, Alan; Mottram, Chiron; Fatah gen. Schieck, Ava; Wittkämper, Michael; Störring, Moritz; Romell, Odd; Strothmann, Andreas; Aish, Francis; - view fewer (2004) Augmented reality meeting table: a novel multi-user interface for architectural design. In: van Leeuwen, J.P. and Timmermans, H.J.P., (eds.) 7th International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning 2004. (pp. pp. 213-220). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Eindhoven.

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Immersive virtual environments have received widespread attention as providing possible replacements for the media and systems that designers traditionally use, as well as, more generally, in providing support for collaborative work. Relatively little attention has been given to date however to the problem of how to merge immersive virtual environments into real world work settings, and so to add to the media at the disposal of the designer and the design team, rather than to replace it. In this paper we report on a research project in which optical see-through augmented reality displays have been developed together with prototype decision support software for architectural and urban design. We suggest that a critical characteristic of multi user augmented reality is its ability to generate visualisations from a first person perspective in which the scale of rendition of the design model follows many of the conventions that designers are used to. Different scales of model appear to allow designers to focus on different aspects of the design under consideration. Augmenting the scene with simulations of pedestrian movement appears to assist both in scale recognition, and in moving from a first person to a third person understanding of the design. This research project is funded by the European Commission IST program (IST-2000-28559).

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