TY - GEN
T1 - Synthetic Environments for Cooperative Product Design
AU - van den Broek, Egon L.
AU - Meijer, Frank
AU - Miedema, Jan
AU - Wang, Huaxin
AU - van der Voort, Mascha C.
AU - Vergeest, Joris S.M.
PY - 2008/9/21
Y1 - 2008/9/21
N2 - Synthetic Environments (SE) facilitate an easy setup of various virtual realities since they are component-based and relatively easy maintainable. Through three stages, involving various types of stakeholders, the feasibility of SEs for cooperative product design (CPD) was explored: 1) Semi-structured group interviews with 19 engineers and designers assessed SE’s potential for CPD; 2) Implementation of a SE; 3) Comparison of a SE with its real counterpart, through: a) an experimental task and b) questionnaires to determine the task performance, the mental workload, the experienced spatial presence, involvement, and realness. 16 participants had a similar task performance, mental workload, and involvement but differed in experienced realism (F(1,30)=5.11, p=.03) and spatial presence (F(1,30)=7.02, p=.01). This research emphasizes the benefit of SE for CPD, which can increase the communication, speed and quality of CPD. Hence, a first step is made towards a new era of CPD.
AB - Synthetic Environments (SE) facilitate an easy setup of various virtual realities since they are component-based and relatively easy maintainable. Through three stages, involving various types of stakeholders, the feasibility of SEs for cooperative product design (CPD) was explored: 1) Semi-structured group interviews with 19 engineers and designers assessed SE’s potential for CPD; 2) Implementation of a SE; 3) Comparison of a SE with its real counterpart, through: a) an experimental task and b) questionnaires to determine the task performance, the mental workload, the experienced spatial presence, involvement, and realness. 16 participants had a similar task performance, mental workload, and involvement but differed in experienced realism (F(1,30)=5.11, p=.03) and spatial presence (F(1,30)=7.02, p=.01). This research emphasizes the benefit of SE for CPD, which can increase the communication, speed and quality of CPD. Hence, a first step is made towards a new era of CPD.
KW - HMI-HF: Human Factors
KW - HMI-VRG: Virtual Reality and Graphics
KW - HMI-MI: MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS
KW - Frameworks
KW - Architecture
KW - Case studies of cooperative engineering in mechanical engineering
KW - Industrial scenarios
KW - Tools and systems for cooperative engineering
KW - Reference models
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-88011-0_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-88011-0_1
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-540-88010-3
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
A2 - Luo, Yuhua
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
T2 - 5th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2008
Y2 - 21 September 2008 through 25 September 2008
ER -