Designing in Caves: Using Immersive Visualisations in Design Practice

Maftei, Laura; Harty, Chris

doi:10.26687/archnet-ijar.v9i3.693

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“…Reported sample sizes differed significantly, ranging from two studies with fewer than 10 participants (Maftei & Harty, 2015;Maftei & Harty, 2016) to another with 120 participants (Heydarian, Carneiro, Gerber, & Becerik-Gerber, 2015b). Overall, the average sample size was 45: 10 for healthcare, 67 for the workplace, and 53 for retail design research.…”

Section: Participant Demographicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Environments for Design Research: Lessons Learned from use of Fully Immersive Virtual Reality in Interior Design Research

Kalantari

Neo

2020

Journal of Interior Design

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What are the current challenges, effectiveness, and future research opportunities for using fully immersive virtual environments (FIVEs) for design research? To answer these questions, we conducted a systematic review to assess peer‐reviewed experimental studies, proof‐of‐concept studies, and conference proceedings that examined the use of FIVEs in the context of interior design research, and 22 studies met our inclusion criteria. Current challenges include lack of perceived realism and immersion, lack of sensory feedback, and time constraints. Key considerations for the effective use of FIVEs include technological considerations, experimental design, measurement techniques, and evaluation methods. Key future research directions include enhancing the realism and immersiveness of FIVEs and promoting multiuser studies.

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Section: Participant Demographicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Environments for Design Research: Lessons Learned from use of Fully Immersive Virtual Reality in Interior Design Research

Kalantari

Neo

2020

Journal of Interior Design

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“…The rationale behind this approach builds on the methodological principles of video-based studies prioritizing the situated and interactional accomplishment of practical action (Heath et al 2010), and the broad positioning of the study. The video-based analysis methods provide relevant research means to understand in depth how collaborative VR is used for performing design-related activities (Maftei 2015;Maftei and Harty 2015;Tutt and Harty 2013). Working with the Innovation Team in the project who organized project teams' visits to the central offices to use the 3D-MOVE, the researchers gathered data from ten sessions over five days during the three-month period (Table 1).…”

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Becoming familiar: how infrastructure engineers begin to use collaborative virtual reality in their interdisciplinary practice

Nikolic¹,

Maftei²,

Whyte³

2019

ITcon

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The design community has recently shown increased interest in using virtual reality (VR) in project review contexts. While single-user headsets currently attract most VR-related attention, room-like immersive VR environments can help facilitate design team engagement and shared exploration of projects. However, to date relatively little research concerns how large-scale VR environments are used in and adapted for professional practice. To address this gap, we set up a bespoke portable VR display system called 3D-MOVE in a major UK construction office to investigate how project team members used and evaluated collaborative VR processes. Over a three-month period, we conducted ten video-recorded VR sessions to observe how engineering professionals familiarize themselves with VR in order to help inform its deployment in practice. The study results show that emergent discussions about design models and questioning of design-related assumptions dominated all observed sessions, even though they were staged as technology demonstrations; which supports the social aspects of large-scale collaborative VR processes. However, before participants could focus on design review, they had to familiarize themselves with the VR technology and time required to do so varied depending on the complexity of the VR configuration. As the participants engaged with the VR environment, they reflected on their processes, requirements and expectations and provided feedback for improving the VR experience. Articulating this familiarization with collaborative VR can inform its deployment with respect to minimizing the learning curve and any distractions or discomfort associated with its use while maximizing the aspects of value-added collaborative engagement. Additional considerations concerning content, interactivity and logistics emerged as necessary to address before VR technologies can become standard practice.

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“…That some requirements are intangible and resist representation (even with advanced visual technologies) has been noted (e.g. infection control - Collinge, 2015); as has the increasing use of immersive digital technologies in design practice (Maftei and Harty, 2015).…”

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Client requirement representations and transformations in construction project design

Collinge

2017

JEDT

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Article Accepted Version Collinge, W. H. (2017) Client requirement representations and transformations in construction project design. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 15 (2). pp. 222241. AbstractExploring how client requirements undergo representational and transformational shifts through the design process, a social semiotic framework is mobilized to examine a series of construction project representations of hospital department configurations in their context of use as meaning making resources. The analysis reveals how semiotic resource use is intrinsic to design work: the deployment and use of sign constructs influencing multiple processes including communications, relations between parties and stakeholder engagement. Supported by practitioner opinion, it is contended that construction project design work may be understood as social semiotic practice: both client parties and designers judiciously employing sign constructs to represent requirements in a process that can be politically sensitive, competitive and temporally constrained. IntroductionDespite their centrality to the design process, the representational shifts that client requirements undergo in briefing work are seldom recognized or acknowledged by practitioners or commentators. This is in spite of briefing being recognised as a collaborative, social process (Barrett and Stanley, 1999) that demands effective communication between parties (Dainty et al., 2006;Emmitt & Gorse, 2007). Although a wide variety of communications are used in design work (e.g. a written brief; rough sketches; formal drawings; computerized imagery; physical models), the role and significance of such resources to represent client requirements is deserving of further study. This paper re-focuses attention upon how the built environment needs of clients are expressed through their requirements: often initially detailed in a strategic brief, but then subsequently transformed by designers into drawings, images, models, etc. The paper will note how the representation of requirements through sign communications has multiple implications for the design process, including requirement interpretation, stakeholder engagement, intra-project relationships and project control.The paper uses a series of requirement representations relating to hospital department configurations drawn from a hospital construction project and examines them with a social semiotic framework. It will be argued that although client requirements provide a tangible and ever-present link to client needs, the semiotic choice of representation and communication is motivated by human intention, and is intrinsic to the sharing of meanings.The paper builds upon the work of construction management academics who have identified meaning as pre-eminently important (e.g. Dainty et al. 2006), who have described briefing as a social process (e.g. Fernie et al. 2003;Fleming, 1996) and those who identify construction communication as a semiotic process (Gluch and Raisanen, 2009). The analysis clarifies how and why si...

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Designing in Caves: Using Immersive Visualisations in Design Practice

Cited by 23 publications

References 32 publications

Virtual Environments for Design Research: Lessons Learned from use of Fully Immersive Virtual Reality in Interior Design Research

Virtual Environments for Design Research: Lessons Learned from use of Fully Immersive Virtual Reality in Interior Design Research

Becoming familiar: how infrastructure engineers begin to use collaborative virtual reality in their interdisciplinary practice

Client requirement representations and transformations in construction project design

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