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Virtual Reality for Consensus Building: Case Studies

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Smart Graphics (SG 2009)

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This demonstration presents a real-time virtual reality (VR) system that has primarily been used as a tool for simulating and negotiating transportation-related designs. Visualization creation and presentation methods are briefly described. Case studies include applications to infrastructure, traffic, and environmental planning, as well as evacuation analysis. An emphasis is placed on using VR as a tool for translating technical information to non-experts and, ideally, enabling members of the public to better participate in decision making.

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  1. FORUM8 Co., Ltd., Nakameguro GT Tower 15F, 2-1-1 Kamimeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 150-0032, Japan

    Thea Lorentzen & Yuji Ito

  2. School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871605, Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1605, USA

    Yoshihiro Kobayashi

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  1. Thea Lorentzen
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  1. Institut für Informatik, LFE Medieninformatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstrs 17, 80333, München, Germany

    Andreas Butz

  2. Simon Fraser University at Surrey, 13450 102 Avenue, BC V3T 5X3, Surrey, Canada

    Brian Fisher

  3. Equipe BUNRAKU, Maître de Conférences – Détaché à l’INRIA Rennes, IRISA-INRIA Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Marc Christie

  4. Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    Patrick Olivier

  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Espana, Spain

    Roberto Therón

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Lorentzen, T., Kobayashi, Y., Ito, Y. (2009). Virtual Reality for Consensus Building: Case Studies. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Christie, M., Krüger, A., Olivier, P., Therón, R. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02115-2_29

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