TY - GEN
T1 - Perception of industry professionals about Mixed Reality for electrical prefabrication
AU - Chalhoub, Jad
AU - Ayer, Steven
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Corbin's Electric for facilitating this research by providing the models, materials, plans and participants that the session and this research possible. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1566274
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been steadily increasing in the building industry. This increase has led many project teams to assess design and constructability for projects in a 3D, BIM-based, environment. Despite this increased use, many projects still use traditional 2D documentation to communicate design concepts to various project participants. Mixed Reality (MR) can technically be used to visualize 3D design content without the need for 2D paper communication, but in practice it is not clear how users would feel about replacing traditional 2D drawings with 3D MR models. This research investigates the perceptions of industry professionals about replacing paper construction documents with a 3D MR based model. To evaluate behavioral and ideological patterns and changes, 18 electrical construction industry practitioners built two different conduit models using the same prefabricated pieces. In one iteration, they were provided with design communication through a MR visualization interface. In the other iteration, they used traditional paper plans. A pre-activity questionnaire was given to capture their ideas about a new technology being introduced and a post-activity questionnaire helped to evaluate their thoughts after using MR to build the conduit. During the conduit assembly activity, participants were video and audio recorded to capture any verbal comments related to their perception of the activity. Participants showed a wide array of reactions to the technology. Although participants unanimously reported that MR was easier to use than paper plans, some voiced other concerns. For example, some participants considered to only be effective as an educational tool. Some participants suggested it could supplement, but not replace, existing paper plans, while others thought it could indeed be used as the primary design communication method. Future research will study the relationship between perception and performance of the participants in this session.
AB - The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been steadily increasing in the building industry. This increase has led many project teams to assess design and constructability for projects in a 3D, BIM-based, environment. Despite this increased use, many projects still use traditional 2D documentation to communicate design concepts to various project participants. Mixed Reality (MR) can technically be used to visualize 3D design content without the need for 2D paper communication, but in practice it is not clear how users would feel about replacing traditional 2D drawings with 3D MR models. This research investigates the perceptions of industry professionals about replacing paper construction documents with a 3D MR based model. To evaluate behavioral and ideological patterns and changes, 18 electrical construction industry practitioners built two different conduit models using the same prefabricated pieces. In one iteration, they were provided with design communication through a MR visualization interface. In the other iteration, they used traditional paper plans. A pre-activity questionnaire was given to capture their ideas about a new technology being introduced and a post-activity questionnaire helped to evaluate their thoughts after using MR to build the conduit. During the conduit assembly activity, participants were video and audio recorded to capture any verbal comments related to their perception of the activity. Participants showed a wide array of reactions to the technology. Although participants unanimously reported that MR was easier to use than paper plans, some voiced other concerns. For example, some participants considered to only be effective as an educational tool. Some participants suggested it could supplement, but not replace, existing paper plans, while others thought it could indeed be used as the primary design communication method. Future research will study the relationship between perception and performance of the participants in this session.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064980797
T3 - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
SP - 1130
EP - 1139
BT - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
PB - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
T2 - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
Y2 - 31 May 2017 through 3 June 2017
ER -