Studying Architectural Massing Strategies in Co-design - Mobile Augmented Reality Tool versus 3D Virtual World

Gül, Leman Figen

doi:10.52842/conf.ecaade.2017.2.703

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“…Defining design activity as a proble m-solving strategy and understanding the employment of different design environments and their impact both on designer's cognitive processes and on design artefact are well studied (Cross, 2011;Kalay, 2006;Simon, 1995;Simon, 1996). Design process described as the evolution of design ideas (Goel, 1995) and during the course of design process, several representation methods expressing the design idea as well as containing the information for building and manufacturing of the design artefacts are used (Akın & Weinel, 1982;Goldschmidt, 2004;Gül 2018).…”

Section: Views On Analogue Vs Digital Tools and Methods In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the conceptual design phase, employing digital media and tools also improves designers' spatial cognition compared to using analogue media and tools (Rahimian & Ibrahim, 2011). In addition, some studies also shows that different digital design environments afford different types of ideation and design actions in relation to the tools in the environment (Gül, 2008(Gül, , 2018.…”

Section: Views On Analogue Vs Digital Tools and Methods In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue that AR is beneficial to use in developing design support tools that could incorporate useful features of analogue design media and tools such as flexibility, speed, intuition, and ambiguity in design. In addition, in the early stages of the architectural design process, a fruitful design process in which designers define massing proposals and evaluate their spatial relationships could be performed by using the AR application (Gül, 2018). MimAR allows users to work on and evaluate virtual 3D geometries that could be superimposed in a real-world environment.…”

Section: Mimar For Conceptual Architectural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…MimAR allows users to work on and evaluate virtual 3D geometries that could be superimposed in a real-world environment. The inherent ability of AR allows its users to be able to work with virtual objects within a physical environment providing a conceptual design environment where mostly 'massing studies took place' (Gül, 2017).…”

Section: Mimar For Conceptual Architectural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring usability tests to evaluate designers’ interaction with mobile augmented reality application for conceptual architectural design

Durmazoğlu¹,

Gül²

2022

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Architectural design could be defined as a process in which the information about various aspects of a design object is produced at different stages, then shared between relevant stakeholders. For the early stages of the architectural design, in order to carry out an efficient and productive design process, and create comprehensive solutions to design problems, novel digital tools have to be developed. Digital become omnipresent in the contemporary architectural practice. Even though very complex design ideas could not be realized without the help of the Computer-aided Design (CAD) tools, some may argue that the idea generation is hindered by the employment of them during the early phases. With the idea of containing the essence of analogue tools, we propose an Augmented Reality (AR) application for architects to explore 3D mass geometries in a similar immediacy and ease of designing with a pen-paper. In this paper, we present and discus the validity of two chosen usability scales System Usability Scale (SUS) and Handheld Augmented Reality Usability Scale (HARUS) measuring comprehensibility of the developed AR application (MimAR). The results of the preliminary study shows that the chosen measurement methods provide a similar tendency of scores. The findings of this study suggests that the comprehensibility of the MimAR application still needs improvement, and yet the usability of the application could be considered above the acceptable threshold.

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Section: Views On Analogue Vs Digital Tools and Methods In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%