Conference
English
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2268/58286>
Abstract
Many CAD tools already allow to create and manipulate directly ideas in a digital way. However, designers still use the pen and paper technique during the early design phase of their projects. Indeed, existing CAD tools con-straint the creative work. There is a need for a sponta-neous human computer interaction in design computing. In order to answer to this need, we develop an integrated aided design tool based on an Virtual Desktop. The de-signer sits in front of a classical desktop where s/he can create and manipulate drawings and generated models. The paper relates the observations made from an ex-periment about the use of the Virtual Desktop by a de-signer. That experiment demonstrates that the immersive aspect of our system interface modifies the relation exist-ing between the designer and his/her model and, this way, its generates a new type of augmented interaction.