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Investigating the Impact of Spatial Augmented Reality on Communication between Design Session Participants - A Pilot Study

Part of: ICT for Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Lorenzo Giunta ,
Fatma Ben Guefrache ,
Elies Dekoninck ,
James Gopsill ,
Jamie O'Hare  and
Federico Morosi
Lorenzo Giunta*
Affiliation:
University of Bath;
Fatma Ben Guefrache
Affiliation:
Université Grenoble Alpes;
Elies Dekoninck
Affiliation:
University of Bath;
James Gopsill
Affiliation:
University of Bath;
Jamie O'Hare
Affiliation:
University of Bath;
Federico Morosi
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano
*
Contact: Giunta, Lorenzo, University of Bath, Mechanical Engineering, United Kingdom, lg413@bath.ac.uk

Abstract

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SAR provides an unobtrusive implementation of AR and enables multiple stakeholders to observe and interact with an augmented physical model. This is synonymous with co-design activities and hence, there is a potential for SAR to have a significant impact in the way design teams may set-up and run their co-design activities in the future. Whilst there are a growing number of studies which apply SAR to design activities, few studies exist that examine a particular element of a design activity in a controlled manner. This paper will begin to fill this gap through the controlled study of SAR and its effects on the communication between participants of a co-design activity. To do so the paper compares a controlled design session, using more traditional methods of design representations (3D models on a screen), to sessions run using SAR. The sessions are then analysed to gather information on the gestures used by the participants as well as the overall efficiency of the participants at completing the set design task. The paper concludes that the data gathered tentatively supports a link between the use of SAR and improved communication between design session participants.

Keywords

Augmented RealitySpatial Augmented RealityCollaborative designCommunicationVirtual reality
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 1973 - 1982
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