Synthetic Environments for Cooperative Product Design

Authors:
Egon L. Broek;Frank Meijer;Jan Miedema;Huaxin Wang;Mascha C. Voort;Joris S. Vergeest
Affiliations:
Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), University of Twente (UT), Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), University of Twente (UT), Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Laboratory of Design, Production, and Management (DPM), University of Twente (UT), Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Delft University of Technology (TUD), Delft, The Netherlands 2628 CE;Laboratory of Design, Production, and Management (DPM), University of Twente (UT), Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Delft University of Technology (TUD), Delft, The Netherlands 2628 CE
Venue:
CDVE '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

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.