Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design?
The ideating phase of product design is critical, as decisions made here influence the rest of the product’s lifecycle. Usually, early preliminary designs in engineering are created with pen and paper, which are incompatible with the subsequent digital design process. In an effort to find a modeling...
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| description | The ideating phase of product design is critical, as decisions made here influence the rest of the product’s lifecycle. Usually, early preliminary designs in engineering are created with pen and paper, which are incompatible with the subsequent digital design process. In an effort to find a modeling tool for early designs that provides the creative flexibility of freehand sketching but also the further processability of digital models, this research investigates natural modeling in virtual reality (VR). To do so, a VR modeling method allowing the intuitive creation of preliminary designs as simplified computer-aided design (CAD) models is presented. The main contribution is the evaluation of this natural VR modeling method against freehand sketching in an extensive user study. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cd40d051d4d74e41bfa81ac0f003dbe22025-08-20T02:54:29ZengCambridge University PressDesign Science2053-47012025-01-011110.1017/dsj.2025.1Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design?Jakob Harlan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4566-3460Stefan Goetz1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0326-9158Sandro Wartzack2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0244-5033Engineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyEngineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyEngineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyThe ideating phase of product design is critical, as decisions made here influence the rest of the product’s lifecycle. Usually, early preliminary designs in engineering are created with pen and paper, which are incompatible with the subsequent digital design process. In an effort to find a modeling tool for early designs that provides the creative flexibility of freehand sketching but also the further processability of digital models, this research investigates natural modeling in virtual reality (VR). To do so, a VR modeling method allowing the intuitive creation of preliminary designs as simplified computer-aided design (CAD) models is presented. The main contribution is the evaluation of this natural VR modeling method against freehand sketching in an extensive user study.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470125000010/type/journal_articleVirtual Reality (VR)Computer-Aided Design (CAD)Preliminary DesignEngineering DesignNatural User Interfaces |
| spellingShingle | Jakob Harlan Stefan Goetz Sandro Wartzack Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design? Design Science Virtual Reality (VR) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Preliminary Design Engineering Design Natural User Interfaces |
| title | Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design? |
| title_full | Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design? |
| title_fullStr | Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design? |
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| title_short | Natural VR modeling: a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design? |
| title_sort | natural vr modeling a viable alternative to freehand sketching for preliminary design |
| topic | Virtual Reality (VR) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Preliminary Design Engineering Design Natural User Interfaces |
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