Improving results of urban design research by enhancing advanced semiexperiments in virtual environments

Enhancing Virtual Product Representations for Advanced Design Repository Systems

This paper describes the transformation of an existing set of heterogeneous product knowledge into a coherent design repository that supports product information archival, storage and reuse. Existing product information was analyzed and compared against desired outputs to ascertain what information management structure was needed to produce design resources pertinent to the design process. Seve...

1 Enhancing Virtual Product Representations for Advanced Design Repository Systems

This paper describes the transformation of an existing set of heterogeneous product knowledge into a coherent design repository that supports product design knowledge archival and web-based search, display and design model and tool generation. Guided by design theory, existing product information was analyzed and compared against desired outputs to ascertain what information management structur...

Determining Components of Medical Instructional Design based on Virtual Reality by Research Synthesis

Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to determine the components of medical education design based on virtual reality by research synthesis method. Methods: In the present study a synthesis method was used. In order to study the research background and to collect appropriate data among the databases of Science Direct, Springer, Scopus, ProQuest and Eric (ERIC) search. With the ke...

Improving Interaction with Virtual Environments

Introduction Virtual environments (VEs) provide a computer-based interface to a real-life or abstract space, using 3D graphics and 3D interaction techniques. VEs represent a novel interface style which offers new possibilities and challenges to human-computer interface design. However, studies of the design of VEs (Kaur et al., 1996) show that designers lack a coherent approach to design, espec...

Environments for enhancing nursing research.

Building Virtual Cities: applying urban planning principles to the design of virtual environments

Urban planners have developed many theories of how urban design affects people’s experience of real-world cities. This paper considers how this body of work might be applied to the design of virtual environments. The paper presents and compares two pieces of research, each proposing algorithms for automatically enhancing or generating virtual environments and each inspired by a different theory...