Publications / 2005 Proceedings of the 22nd ISARC, Ferrara, Italy

A Visual Manipulation Approach over Constructive Process Management-Interactive Circles Biosphere

Chi-Hsin Liang, Wei-Hao Huang, Chun-I Chen, Teng-Wen Chang
Abstract:

With the complexity of construction process, process information visualization and representation is often key research issues. Among those issues, when the problematic events occurred and need attentions of responsible persons, the notice methods are often applying multiple communication media such as vocal communication, SMS messages and pictures taken from the field in addition to emails, web pages and written documentation. Without fully integration among those media, the restriction as well as the advantage for each media shows.

With more advanced information technology appears now, the possibility of representation as well as the seamless integration becomes diverse and emergent in our daily life. Among those, a trend of human computer interfaces called ambient interfaces shows a promising direction for coordinating those media in a settle manor. Therefore, following three groups of researches—information technology in construction application, process information visualization and ambient interfaces, in this research we propose a prototype system called Interactive Circle Biosphere (ICBO) for testing the concepts for the problem we address. The implementation and components (interactive whiteboard and ambient lights) of ICBO are described in details. And, scenarios are described in terms of functionality and advantages of our prototype are included at the end of papers.

Keywords: Ambient interface, construction information management, information visualization, intuitive manipulation