Co-active Design Support Environment and Tools using with Digital Media

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K00708
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Wakayama University
• Principal Investigator: KAWASUMI NORIHIRO 和歌山大学, システム工学部, 講師 (30252547)
• Research Collaborator: MOROZUMI Mitsuo ; IKI Kazuhisa ; HONMA Riken
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: デジタルデザイン / インタフェース / 仮想空間 / 参加型デザイン / 討論ファシリテーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In design projects, it's important to create the practical solutions through collaborative working by participants. However, digital technologies are not well optimized and adopted for these collaborative activities. In this research, we aim to propose and develop the digital environment and modeling-tools for design practices. At first, we tried to observe and record the designer’s actions in several design discussions to clarify the fundamental design procedures. Then, we developed the prototype of Graph DB based archive that store the generated design resources and visualize the relation of them as visual map in design projects. Next, we developed the virtual-space interfaces that are possible to create and annotate three-dimensional model directly using the AR/VR technologies. As a result, we obtained that it is more effective than the conventional modeling methods in the verification experiment.

Free Research Field

建築計画，デザイン学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

情報技術の発達と共に，デザイン計画分野へのデジタルメディア導入は容易となったが，デザイン実務に活かすためには，まだ技術やツールを使いこなす知識と習熟が必要である。
本研究では，非専門家も加わった多人数・多視点による参加型デザイン技法を見据え，より多くの知見を集約したものづくりを支援するシステム環境やサービスについて検討した。特に３次元モデルの構築や仮想空間による体験ツールの開発は，デザイン対象の理解と問題解決に至る合意を円滑に進める上での課題を明らかにし，デザイン業務のデジタル・システム化に貢献できたと考えている。