Evaluation and Student Perception of Augmented Reality-Based Design Collaboration

Interdisciplinary collaboration is an important aspect of industrial design, which involves interaction with other disciplines, such as engineering and management. The main purpose of this study was to investigate and evaluate student interaction with an augmented reality system in interdisciplinary design teams. The result indicated that design students and engineering students tended to regard the system as more stimulating. However, design students tended to regard the system as unreliable. The result indicated that augmented reality-based design collaboration should be more intuitive, flexible, and should have much of the functionality of the current design practice, in order to provide a more satisfactory user experience.