Development of a Virtual Reality Solution for End User Involvement in Interior Design

Abstract

The original idea of bringing the eCAADe conference to Oulu dates back to September 2012 after the eCAADe conference in Prague. Officially, the eCAADe Council granted us the permission to organize the 34th eCAADe conference in Oulu in March 2013. Over the last four years several people have helped us to make this conference happen. We thank especially the former Dean of Oulu School of Architecture, now the Vice Rector for Education, University of Oulu, Professor Helka-Liisa Hentilä and the present Dean of Oulu School of Architecture, Professor Rainer Mahlamäki for their positive and supportive attitude.During the lengthy process of organizing the eCAADe 2016 we have had the privilege to experience the supportive and kind atmosphere of eCAADe Council, whose members have helped us with all aspects of the organizing. We warmly thank both Presidents Johan Verbeke (until 2016) and Joachim Kieferle (since 2016) for encouragement and unswerving support during the organizing of this conference. We most warmly thank Bob Martens, the liaison with the conference host and the previous conference organizer, for always kindly and patiently guiding us through the multistage arrangement process of the conference. Also, we wish to thank all the other previous conference organizers, Henri Achten, Rudi Stouffs and Emine Mine Thompson, for sharing their experience and knowledge without hesitation.Quality control is an emerging issue concerning the publishing of a conference proceedings. We are grateful for eCAADe Council for being able to use the OpenConf system throughout the publishing process. Authors uploaded their extended abstracts (length of 1000 to 1500 words and one optional image) for the double blind peer review process. Each abstract Acknowledgements -Volume 2 -eCAADe 34 | 7 was evaluated by three reviewers. With the help of the OpenConf system we could, for example, easily ensure that none of the reviewers came from the same institution as the authors.Altogether, we received 241 abstracts from authors from 44 different countries. After the peer review process, 165 papers were accepted for full paper submission. In the end, altogether 157 papers were presented in eCAADe 2016 and published in the proceedings. We are very grateful for all the 98 reviewers from 29 different countries (see the List of Reviewers) for their constructive and thorough comments for each author. We also continued the practice started in eCAADe 2015 conference in Vienna of having all the session chairs to give prospective comments of the papers to evoke the discourse at early stage between the author and session chair for the 27 sessions of the conference. All the session chairs also participated the peer review process of the extended abstracts. We owe the session chairs great gratitude for their commitment and long term contribution to the process until the final paper presentations.Parallel to these prospective comments editorial team gave comments to the authors too. We thank and congratulate all authors for their hard work and support on using...

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