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Mixed reality mockups for multimodal evaluation of product prototypes
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2009
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Logos Verlag
Zusammenfassung
In the process of industrial product development, there is a constant
need for prototypes representing the current state of development. Since the
manufacturing of physical prototypes is very cost-intensive, virtual prototypes gain
more and more importance. Moving from a 2.5D screen visualization to a 3D
virtual reality visualization (e.g. in a CAVE) offers a better spatial impression and
the possibility of visualizations in a 1:1 scale. However, those virtual prototypes
cannot be a complete replacement for physical ones because of their exclusively
visual nature which does not allow the evaluation of non-visual features like
weight and inertia.
We propose using mixed reality (MR) technologies to serve as a bridge between
virtuality and reality, combining the advantages of both worlds. These functional
and intuitively usable prototypes enable the designer to find flaws in the concept
and allow the inclusion of customer-feedback and usability tests in early
development phases.