An “Animated Spatial Time Machine” in Co-Creation: Reconstructing History Using Gamification Integrated into 3D City Modelling, 4D Web and Transmedia Storytelling

Matthys, Mario; Cock, Laure De; Vermaut, John; Weghe, Nico Van de; Maeyer, Philippe De

doi:10.3390/ijgi10070460

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“…Thanks to new interfaces and procedural modeling, the 3D co-design of future developments is gradually becoming more accessible. When citizens in 3D co-creation also add reconstructions of the past state of the public space as well as the current as-built state extracted from 3D city modeling, then, together with the animated 3D design for the future, a 4D "Animated Spatial Time Machine" (AniSTMa) is created [63]. By combining the physical and virtual worlds, new hybrid 3D/4D cities are on their way to establishing a hyper-universe experience in XR [64].…”

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Rethinking the Public Space Design Process Using Extended Reality as a Game Changer for 3D Co-Design

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Public space design processes are complex. Numerous preconditions and the involvement of stakeholders impede rapid decision making. Two-dimensional drawings remain the norm, although these are difficult for citizen stakeholders to understand. Public space designers rarely use 3D city models, infrastructure building information modeling, digital twins, or extended reality. Usually, 3D images (without animation) are only rendered after decision making for communication purposes. This study consists of an online questionnaire of 102 Flemish region (Belgium) stakeholders to show the appeal of and resistance to the use of 3D and extended reality in public space design processes. In a follow-up experiment, 37 participants evaluated various graphic techniques by their designs and observations. The questionnaire showed that all stakeholders lack experience with the use of virtual reality in design processes. We found that non-designer stakeholders and designers indicated that using virtual reality and interactive online 3D tools using game engines provided a better insight into communication and design. Reusing 3D designs in cycling simulators during the design process results in cost-effective quality optimization, and integration into digital twins or animated spatial time machines paves the way for hybrid, 4D cities. Extended reality supports 3D co-design that has simplicity and clarity from the outset of the design process, a trait that makes it a game changer.

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“…Gamification motivates cooperation creativity, and thinking about spatial development and could also serve Smart Cities as a crowdsourcing strategy to enrich datasets. Matthys et al (2021) demonstrate the importance of gamification of DTs for public participation with the help of the "3D city game Ghent" project, launched by the city of Ghent (Belgium) in 2016. Reconstruction of disappeared urban environments is the main focus of the project.…”

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“…Ghent inhabitants were co-creators in modeling in an open-source 3D software with the help of Transmedia storytelling and gamification through an animated 4D web environment and VR, AR or XR (Mixed reality) applications. Matthys et al (2021) further offer a framework to create a parallel virtual universe of the past using DTs to help other municipalities and cities by analysing an economical and interdisciplinary 3D co-creative process.…”

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Use Cases for District-Scale Urban Digital Twins

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Biljecki

Stouffs

2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Efficient usage and management of abundant data are crucial for organisations, especially in the light of a lack of in-depth IT knowledge. Digital twins (DTs) are particularly expected to assist organisational processes, as behaviours of physical components are realistically represented by them using data for individual use cases. Nevertheless, DTs are extremely reliant on their use cases, leading to an extensive DT catalogue. However, a conclusive list of use cases for this accumulation of feasible DT application areas does not exist. To address this issue, this paper documents the use cases of Urban Digital Twin (UDT) platforms and applications with a state-of-the-art review. The study focuses on district-scale UDT applications that model, manage and analyse—buildings, transportation, energy, water, utility, and infrastructures that form smart cities. In order to catalogue diverse use cases found in several sectors, theoretical reasoning is developed. Our study provides a classified inventory that can be helpful for stakeholders in companies, government agencies and academia—such as researchers, architects, facilities managers, developers, and city planners.

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“…Doing so, historical data are helpful to model the future by extrapolating the past and simulating the future (Breunig et al 2020 ). How important it will be to extend 3D city modeling for archiving the past and planning the future of cities has been portrayed impressively by Matthys et al ( 2021 ).…”

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Geospatial Information Research: State of the Art, Case Studies and Future Perspectives

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Blankenbach

Breunig³

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Geospatial information science (GI science) is concerned with the development and application of geodetic and information science methods for modeling, acquiring, sharing, managing, exploring, analyzing, synthesizing, visualizing, and evaluating data on spatio-temporal phenomena related to the Earth. As an interdisciplinary scientific discipline, it focuses on developing and adapting information technologies to understand processes on the Earth and human-place interactions, to detect and predict trends and patterns in the observed data, and to support decision making. The authors – members of DGK, the Geoinformatics division, as part of the Committee on Geodesy of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, representing geodetic research and university teaching in Germany – have prepared this paper as a means to point out future research questions and directions in geospatial information science. For the different facets of geospatial information science, the state of art is presented and underlined with mostly own case studies. The paper thus illustrates which contributions the German GI community makes and which research perspectives arise in geospatial information science. The paper further demonstrates that GI science, with its expertise in data acquisition and interpretation, information modeling and management, integration, decision support, visualization, and dissemination, can help solve many of the grand challenges facing society today and in the future.

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An “Animated Spatial Time Machine” in Co-Creation: Reconstructing History Using Gamification Integrated into 3D City Modelling, 4D Web and Transmedia Storytelling

Cited by 20 publications

References 113 publications

Rethinking the Public Space Design Process Using Extended Reality as a Game Changer for 3D Co-Design

Rethinking the Public Space Design Process Using Extended Reality as a Game Changer for 3D Co-Design

Use Cases for District-Scale Urban Digital Twins

Geospatial Information Research: State of the Art, Case Studies and Future Perspectives

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