Bibtex
ARTHUR: A Collaborative Augmented Environment for Architectural Design and Urban Planning
@article{blow04,
author="Wolfgang Broll and Irma Lindt and Jan Ohlenburg and Michael Wittk\"amper and Chunrong Yuan and Thomas Novotny and Ava Fatah gen. Schieck and Chiron Mottram and Andreas Strothmann",
title="Arthur: A {C}ollaborative {A}ugmented {E}nvironment for {A}rchitectural {D}esign and {U}rban {P}lanning",
journal="Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting",
editor = "Jens Herder",
year="2004",
volume="1",
number="1",
month=dec,
note="{\tt urn:nbn:de:0009-6-348}, ISSN 1860-2037",
abstract = "Projects in the area of architectural design and urban
planning typically engage several architects as well
as experts from other professions. While the design
and review meetings thus often involve a large number
of cooperating participants, the actual design is still
done by the individuals in the time in between those
meetings using desktop PCs and CAD applications. A
real collaborative approach to architectural design and
urban planning is often limited to early paper-based
sketches.
In order to overcome these limitations, we designed
and realized the ARTHUR system, an Augmented Reality
(AR) enhanced round table to support complex
design and planning decisions for architects. While
AR has been applied to this area earlier, our approach
does not try to replace the use of CAD systems but
rather integrates them seamlessly into the collaborative
AR environment. The approach is enhanced by in-
tuitive interaction mechanisms that can be easily configured
for different application scenarios."
}
