Augmented Reality for Evaluating Low Environmental Impact 3D Concepts in Industrial Design

Background

In recent years, AR research has improved and extended to different study areas, while the same thing has happened in data processing and development of devices that include digital cameras, state-of-the-art sensors and global positioning systems. However, authors such as Uva, Cristiano, Florentino and Monno (2010) affirm that tools for computer-aided technologies do not provide good support when carrying out a review of design’s concepts, prefiguration and figuration, mainly for the following matters: (a) subsequent applications integration; (b) finite element methods (FEM); (c) usability; (d) complex design knowledge; (e) system configuration management and; (f) web contents support. In a different way, AR improves perception of industrial objects with digital and multimedia data annotations (Friedrich, Jahn, & Schmidt, 2002).