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We developed a collaborative virtual environment for architectural planning that facilitates groups of people to work together using three different interfaces. These interfaces enable users to interact with the scene with varying levels of immersion and different interaction modalities. We conducted a user study to gauge the general usability of the system and to understand how the different interfaces affect the group work. In this paper we present the architecture of the system along with its different interfaces. We also present the user study results and the insights we gained from the study.
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We would like to thank the staff and students at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, for their support throughout the course of this work. This publication is based on work supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) awards # ACI-1441963 and # CNS-1625941.
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Bharadwaj, K., Johnson, A.E. (2021). A Hybrid Collaborative Virtual Environment with Heterogeneous Representations for Architectural Planning. In: Gao, H., Wang, X., Iqbal, M., Yin, Y., Yin, J., Gu, N. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 350. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67540-0_11
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