Col-Con: A Virtual Reality Simulation Testbed for Exploring Collaborative Behaviors in Construction
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| author | Yu, Liuchuan Cheng, Ching-Yu Ranc, William F Dow, Joshua Szilagyi, Michael Huang, Haikun Hong, Sungsoo Ray Esmaeili, Behzad Yu, Lap-Fai |
| author_facet | Yu, Liuchuan Cheng, Ching-Yu Ranc, William F Dow, Joshua Szilagyi, Michael Huang, Haikun Hong, Sungsoo Ray Esmaeili, Behzad Yu, Lap-Fai |
| contents | Virtual reality is widely adopted for applications such as training, education, and collaboration. The construction industry, known for its complex projects and numerous personnel involved, relies heavily on effective collaboration. Setting up a real-world construction site for experiments can be expensive and time-consuming, whereas conducting experiments in VR is relatively low-cost, scalable, and efficient. We propose Col-Con, a virtual reality simulation testbed for exploring collaborative behaviors in construction. Col-Con is a multi-user testbed that supports users in completing tasks collaboratively. Additionally, Col-Con provides immersive and realistic simulated construction scenes, where real-time voice communication, along with synchronized transformations, animations, sounds, and interactions, enhances the collaborative experience. As a showcase, we implemented a pipe installation construction task based on Col-Con. A user study demonstrated that Col-Con excels in usability, and participants reported a strong sense of immersion and collaboration. We envision that Col-Con will facilitate research on exploring virtual reality-based collaborative behaviors in construction. |
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| spellingShingle | Col-Con: A Virtual Reality Simulation Testbed for Exploring Collaborative Behaviors in Construction Yu, Liuchuan Cheng, Ching-Yu Ranc, William F Dow, Joshua Szilagyi, Michael Huang, Haikun Hong, Sungsoo Ray Esmaeili, Behzad Yu, Lap-Fai Human-Computer Interaction Virtual reality is widely adopted for applications such as training, education, and collaboration. The construction industry, known for its complex projects and numerous personnel involved, relies heavily on effective collaboration. Setting up a real-world construction site for experiments can be expensive and time-consuming, whereas conducting experiments in VR is relatively low-cost, scalable, and efficient. We propose Col-Con, a virtual reality simulation testbed for exploring collaborative behaviors in construction. Col-Con is a multi-user testbed that supports users in completing tasks collaboratively. Additionally, Col-Con provides immersive and realistic simulated construction scenes, where real-time voice communication, along with synchronized transformations, animations, sounds, and interactions, enhances the collaborative experience. As a showcase, we implemented a pipe installation construction task based on Col-Con. A user study demonstrated that Col-Con excels in usability, and participants reported a strong sense of immersion and collaboration. We envision that Col-Con will facilitate research on exploring virtual reality-based collaborative behaviors in construction. |
| title | Col-Con: A Virtual Reality Simulation Testbed for Exploring Collaborative Behaviors in Construction |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23627 |