BUILD-IT

By using a new, video-based interaction technology it will be evaluated, how the concept stage in the product development process and the teamwork can be improved with this new media. In the conventional design of large plants a brake in the logical chain occurs when changing from the 2D layout to the CAD system or from the sketch to the CAD system, respectively. Efficient media and tools are missing to visualize plants and to discuss them with the customer or with other team members. For the visualization often wooden or plastic models are used which have to be transferred to CAD models afterwards. In order to avoid this break in media a video-based interaction technique is used, which allows a sketched layout as well as a brainstorming in a team, collaborative work of teams and an electronic capturing and processing of the generated documents.