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.
real walking
Factory planning
collaborative virtual environments
redirection techniques
production planning
building information model
virtual construction
redirected walking
virtual reality
Author
Andreas Kunz
ETH Zurich
M. Zank
ETH Zurich
Morten Fjeld
Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction Design (Chalmers)
T. Nescher
ETH Zurich
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
0277786X (ISSN) 1996756X (eISSN)
Vol. 44 257-262Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Interaction Technologies
DOI
10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.086