Real walking in virtual environments for factory planning and evaluation
Paper in proceeding, 2016
Nowadays, buildings or production facilities are designed using specialized design software and building information modeling tools help to evaluate the resulting virtual mock-up. However, with current, primarily desktop based tools it is hard to evaluate human factors of such a design, for instance spatial constraints for workforces. This paper presents a new tool for factory planning and evaluation based on virtual reality that allows designers, planning experts, and workforces to walk naturally and freely within a virtual factory. Therefore, designs can be checked as if they were real before anything is built.
building information model
collaborative virtual environments
redirection techniques
redirected walking
virtual construction
Factory planning
production planning
virtual reality
real walking
Author
Andreas Kunz
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
M. Zank
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Morten Fjeld
Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design
T. Nescher
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Procedia CIRP
22128271 (eISSN)
Vol. 44 257-262Subject Categories
Interaction Technologies
DOI
10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.086