Understanding Design, Augmenting Teams
Remote Design Collaboration on Architectural Design in Extended Reality
Principal Investigator
This study explored how Extended Reality (XR) can support architectural design directly on-site through remote collaboration. An Mixed Reality (MR) collaboration system was developed and evaluated, connecting an on-site designer in Okinawa with a remote collaborator in Tokyo to enable real-time co-design of a building proposal. The findings highlighted key opportunities and challenges for supporting immersive on-site design through remote expertise and computational assistance, providing insights for the future development of distributed XR design environments.
Remote collaboration scenario and implementation example
Overview of system architecture
Remote collaboration scenario and implementation example
Duration. March 2022 - February 2023
Collaborators. Santosh Maurya, Fujii Haruyuki
Affiliation. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), School of Environment and Society, Architecture & Building Engineering Department
Lab. Fujii Lab for Design Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Funding Body. Laboratory for Design of Social Innovation in Global Networks (DLab), Tokyo Tech, Japan; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (grant number 22K18138).
Hardware. Microsoft HoloLens 2
Related Publications. Kahlon, Y., Fujii, H., 2023. Facilitating Synchronous Remote Collaboration on On-site Architectural Design using Mixed Reality, in: Proceedings of the 46th Symposium on Computer Technology of Information, Systems and Applications. Presented at the AIJ Information Symposium, Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, pp. 77–82.