Augmented worlds, the adoption of Augmented Reality in the design process: A review of the effects of using an AR co-design environment on team interaction

This research analysed the effects of using an AR co-design environment as a supportive tool during design meetings, on the interaction within a project team.<br/>Lacking interaction is a problem that occurs project wide in the construction industry and can cause diverse effects, leading to mistakes and rework. This lack often originates in the...

Spatial information: An investigation into the impact of lacking spatial information in Dutch infrastructure projects

This research project focuses on the impact of lacking spatial information in the execution phase of Dutch infrastructure projects. In this research project, spatial information is defined as a combination of geometric and geographic object related information. Three construction projects have been examined through case studies and depth...

Inter Project Learning: Key steps and actions to effectively reuse lessons-learned by managers in new projects

The Extent of the Users’ Acceptance and the Use Behaviour in the Use of Master List Online System in BKPM, Indonesia (Case Study)

Nowadays, investment holds an important role in Indonesia since the investors are facilitated by the Indonesian government to invest in various sectors. On top of everything, Indonesia has a lot of natural and human resources that encourages the Indonesian government to promote investment in front of foreign and domestic investors to boost...

Seeing is Believing: Capturing functional product requirements with Augmented Reality within Dutch mega transport projects

Building flood emergency scenarios in augmented reality

To find out if AR can be used for building flood scenarios in an application that uses optical see-through glasses the problem was first split up into different sub problems: user localisation, world creation and water level tracking. User localisation allows the user to walk around in the scenario. This is done using a combination of marker...

Towards a continuing educational tool for investigative interviewing: How to design virtual, conversational environments between criminal investigators and virtual suspects and witnesses

This masters thesis report explains the front-end design and development activities around a new immersive learning product created under the guise of TinQwise B.V. The author begins this thesis by analyzing the current landscape of existing investigative interviewing techniques, drawing from literature and qualitative interviews with criminal...

Designing an engaging game for assessing motion disorders

The Technology in Motion project (TIM) has the goal to create an objective and non-invasive assessment method for motion disorders using novel technologies. Currently the TIM project has been looking at Augmented Reality (AR) as a potential technology for this purpose. A part of the project is to design a game that incites the patient to make...

BIM’s Horizon: BIM and its Envisioned Use in Engineering Infrastructure

Towards explaining the impact of serious gaming on readiness to change: A mixed method research approach for determining what game components of a serious game are of added value to impacting organizational readiness to change

Despite the growing interest in the business world as well as the academic world for serious gaming, significant knowledge gaps remain to be researched; one of which concerns the development of unified formalized methods to analyze serious games in order to explain the nature of the impact they promise in organizational change processes. For...

Building Information Modeling: Towards a structured implementation process in an engineering organization

Transforming product oriented businesses towards service providers: A case study of service design at Siemens Cranes

Although in a service economy a large portion of the gross domestic product is the result of rendered services, some sectors or business clusters are only lately witnessing the emergence of service provisioning in their industries. In the case of Siemens Cranes, which primary focusses on large crane projects and the sale of electrical subsystems...

Virtual Design and Construction in civil engineering projects: An analysis and guideline to the application of the iRoom at Royal HaskoningDHV

This thesis examines the application of Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) in civil engineering projects. VDV is a method which makes use of the multi-screen iRoom to allow stakeholders simultaneously describe, present and evaluate projects on product, organisation and process perspectives (Kunz and Fischer 2012). This thesis addresses the...

Design of a gesture controlled graphic interface for Head mounted Displays for CSI The Hague

In this project an HMD (head mounted display) is used to display augmented reality in 3D using a separate screen for each eye. Two cameras map the entire crime scene in 3D using state-of-the-art mapping and tracking software which is being developed at the TU Delft. This tool enables the forensic researcher to use built in tools such as thermal...

Knowledge management improvements at KPMG: An assessment of the knowledge channels at a large knowledge intensive organization

An assessment at a large knowledge intensive organization to improve their knowledge management system to be faster and more accurate. This thesis shows the analysis to come to recommendations for KPMG on how to improve their KMS. The result is an overview of knowledge channels KPMG can use to increase speed and accuracy. The analyses are done...

A taxonomy of virtualization technologies

Contemporary organizations have access to a swiftly expanding selection of computing, storage and networking technologies. A remarkable trend of the past decennium is the advent of virtualization technologies. In this period, many IT companies shifted their attention to virtualization. This has led to the development of many types of...

Supporting convergence in groups: (re-) design and evaluation of two thinkLets for convergence and a technique for similarity detection

To solve complex problems brainstorming with a Group Support System can be a helpful tool. Social comparison and association effects are factors that stimulate the generation of creative and high quality ideas or concepts. Also, the GSS’ capabilities that allow a group to work in parallel contributes to the swiftness with which a fast growing...