Migrating the Classical Pen-and-Paper Based Conceptual Sketching of Architecture Plans Towards Computer Tools - Prototype Design and Evaluation

Bayer, Johannes; Bukhari, Syed Saqib; Langenhan, Christoph; Liwicki, Marcus; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter; Petzold, Frank; Dengel, Andreas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52159-6_4

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“…ar:searchPad , metisWebUI (Bayer et al 2015), flamingo (Thurow et al 2016) These evaluations resulted in multiple requirements for user interaction and user interface metaphors like:…”

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“…7), Johannes Bayer at the Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI GmbH) took a platform-independent 2D modelling approach and implemented, among other things, a means of enriching search queries (Bayer et al 2015). In Fig.…”

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“…The prototype client applications a.scatch, TouchTect, ar:searchdroid and cormorant accept input from freehand drawings which are created using a digital pen. The quality of the different visualizations and interactions was evaluated in a user study (Bayer et al 2015). This initial proof of concept indicated that while most participants liked the prototypes, paper and pen were still the preferred method.…”

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Supporting the building design process with graph-based methods using centrally coordinated federated databases

2017

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Background: Technological developments and globalized working processes have transformed the building process. However, current digital semantic building models no longer adequately represent the increasing complexity of modern building projects. The potential of combining agent-based and graph-based methods, for example for energy calculations or spatial research strategies, is not fully exploited. Methods: In our system, users search for building floorplans, for example as sources of inspiration, by creating conceptual hand-drawn sketches of building parts on multi-touch devices. The sketch is analyzed and used to query a federated database system comprising a building information model server, the graph database neo4j and the content management system mediaTUM. Users interact with client applications that show and continuously update a list of floorplans by sending queries to a central coordinator service. In the paper, we describe the coordinator that enables our databases to appear as a single smart information system to search for digital information about buildings and visualize their floorplans. The application case comprises search by drawing the initial design idea of a building to find similar floorplans e.g. as source of inspiration. Results: Our federated database system is queried using semantic building floorplan fingerprints, which are formalized as graphs and encoded in a common schema, like our AGraphML, to represent spatial configurations and perform graph matching. As graph matching is computationally expensive, the coordinator needs to analyze the queries, separate different fingerprints and metadata and pass it to specialized agents, implemented as microservices, for processing. The returned result sets are combined and the results are visualized. The use of multiple agents facilitates the recombination of the data from the underlying disparate data sources and also serves to support different execution strategies which are chosen using properties of the query and a set of predefined rules. Conclusions: To deal with complex and dynamic queries, as well as dynamic results that are updated while some agents are still executing, a caching framework was developed which takes the similarity measures of the graph-based building representation into account when determining query equality.

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“…ar:searchPad , metisWebUI (Bayer et al 2015), flamingo (Thurow et al 2016) These evaluations resulted in multiple requirements for user interaction and user interface metaphors like:…”

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“…At the level of the user interface, a range of different input strategies for supporting the early phases of the design process and the input of vague drawn forms or models (Bayer et al 2015) were explored as part of the 'metis' research project at the DFKI and TUM. The results show that the usefulness of the displayed results and input methods depends on what is being designed and the design strategy of the user.…”

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“…It is possible to search using traditional search terms in the browser and the entries are linked back, based on an analysis of the pixel images, building models and links, to other information sources, such as the architects' website or a digital building model. For the 'metis WebUI' (figure 6), Johannes Bayer at the Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI GmbH) took a platform-independent 2D modelling approach and implemented, among other things, a means of enriching search queries (Bayer et al 2015). In figure 6 one can see the spatial arrangement as a bubble diagram on the left and actual spatial arrangement with symbols for doors and windows on the right, demonstrating the different formalisations of levels of abstraction and detail.…”

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Views on architecture: Different abstraction layers of building information imply special working methods and interaction metaphors to support a variety of courses of action

Langenhan¹,

Petzold²

2016

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In the early design phases, designers usually only have a vague idea of the building they are designing. Different aspects of potential design variants need to be tested, assessed and compared with one another. The ability to consider design variants in different ways -based on floor plan, schematic concept, section or 3D visualization, for example -helps to identify problems as well as reveal areas of potential. This paper describes software prototypes developed to help designers input and present different levels of abstraction. The transformations between these levels of abstraction reveal new solutions and make designers aware of issues that need to be considered during the design process.

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Explainable Distributed Case-Based Support Systems: Patterns for Enhancement and Validation of Design Recommendations

Eisenstadt

Espinoza-Stapelfeld

Mikyas

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development

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Migrating the Classical Pen-and-Paper Based Conceptual Sketching of Architecture Plans Towards Computer Tools - Prototype Design and Evaluation

Cited by 13 publications

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Supporting the building design process with graph-based methods using centrally coordinated federated databases

Supporting the building design process with graph-based methods using centrally coordinated federated databases

Views on architecture: Different abstraction layers of building information imply special working methods and interaction metaphors to support a variety of courses of action

Explainable Distributed Case-Based Support Systems: Patterns for Enhancement and Validation of Design Recommendations

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