Chowdhury Shuva, Schnabel Marc Aurel
School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Front Robot AI. 2019 Oct 14;6:97. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00097. eCollection 2019.
The article discusses design communication and participation of laypeople in a virtual participatory urban design process. We speculate that an immersive virtual environment facilitated instrument can allow laypeople to take part actively as designers in the early stage of urban design ideation and generation. We have developed a design communication framework where laypeople can participate in design discourse on a neighborhood's future urban form. The strategy describes an urban design intent, which is informed by the development procedure of an instrument and workflow to engage participants. The integration of the instrument and the engagement procedure enable continuous designing of urban form by laypeople. A protocol analysis has been undertaken to investigate design communication. A coding scheme is applied to investigate, analyse, and understand how laypeople communicate with the design instrument and control design in the virtual environment. Through engaging non-experts, the research impacts on the perceptual affordance created by immersive 3D buildings artifacts and verbal conversation. The protocol analysis validated the setup so that subsequent studies can address the meaningfulness of such design conversations.
本文讨论了在虚拟参与式城市设计过程中普通民众的设计沟通与参与。我们推测，一种沉浸式虚拟环境辅助工具能够让普通民众在城市设计构思与生成的早期阶段作为设计师积极参与其中。我们已经开发了一个设计沟通框架，普通民众可以在此框架内参与关于社区未来城市形态的设计讨论。该策略描述了一种城市设计意图，它受到一种工具的开发程序和用于吸引参与者的工作流程的影响。工具与参与程序的整合使普通民众能够持续设计城市形态。已进行了一项协议分析来研究设计沟通。应用一种编码方案来调查、分析和理解普通民众在虚拟环境中如何与设计工具进行沟通以及控制设计。通过让非专家参与，该研究对沉浸式3D建筑制品和口头交流所创造的感知可供性产生影响。协议分析验证了该设置，以便后续研究能够探讨此类设计对话的意义。
