CONVR2010 (10th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality 2010)
Paper List

KeyNote:

EMERGING APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ARCHITECTURAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
Prof. Kincho H. Law (Stanford University, USA)

BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM): A VISUAL & WHOLE LIFE CYCLE APPROACH
Prof. Nashwan Dawood (Teesside University, UK)

D4AR – 4 DIMENSIONAL AUGMENTED REALITY – MODELS FOR AUTOMATION AND INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS MONITORING
Prof. Feniosky Peña-Mora, Colombia University (US)

Invited Paper:

HOW VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES ADVANCES IN GERMANY
Prof. Hans-Joachim Bargstädt (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)

Accepted Papers:
Accepted papers are reviewed at least 2 reviewers.

No. 1
STUDY ON THE USE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL DATA IN THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF BRIDGES IN JAPAN
Kazushige Endo, Noriaki Aoyama and Yuki Iboshi (National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Japan)


No. 2
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS USING BIM-IFC
Souheil Soubra and Julien Hans (CSTB, France)


No. 3
VISUALISATION OF SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION WITHIN A GAME ENGINE ENVIRONMENT
Pieter Pauwels, Ronald De Meyer and Jan Van Campenhout (Ghent University, Belgium)


No. 4
BORED PILE CONSTRUCTION VISUALIZATION BY ENHANCED PRODUCTION-LINE CHART AND AUGMENTED-REALITY PHOTOS
Ming Fung Siu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) and Ming Lu (University of Alberta, Canada)


No. 5
A PROJECTIVE MOBILE DEVICE FOR PRESENTING LOCATION-BASED BUILDING INFORMATION IN A CONSTRUCTION SITE
Kai Chen Yeh, Meng Han Tsai and Shih Chung Kang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


No. 6
AUDITORY FEEDBACK FOR VR-ASSISTED CONSTRUCTION ROBOT TELE-OPERATION
Ahmad Anas Yusof, Tang Xing Xin, Kawamura Takuya and Hironao Yamada (Gifu University, Japan)


No. 7
VIRTUAL MODEL OF STRUCTURAL STEEL CONSTRUCTION USING COSYE FRAMEWORK
Amin Alvanchi, Reza Azimi (University of Alberta, Canada), SangHyun Lee (University of Michigan, USA), Simaan M. AbouRizk (University of Alberta, Canada)


No. 8
INTUITIONISTIC APPROACH TOWARD CAPTURING AND MODELING DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
Madalina Wierzbicki-Neagu and Clarence W. de Silva (University of British Columbia, Canada)


No. 9
RESOLVING INCORRECT VISUAL OCCLUSION IN OUTDOOR AUGMENTED REALITY USING TOF CAMERA AND OPENGL FRAME BUFFER
Suyang Dong and Vineet R. Kamat (University of Michigan, USA)


No. 10
SEMI-AUTOMATIC 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF PIECEWISE PLANAR BUILDING MODELS FROM SINGLE IMAGE
Chen Feng, Fei Deng (Wuhan University, China) and Vineet R. Kamat (University of Michigan, USA)


No. 11
PHOTOGRAMMETRY ASSISTED RAPID MEASUREMENT OF EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED BUILDING DAMAGE
Fei Dai (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), Suyang Dong, Vineet R. Kamat (University of Michigan, USA) and Ming Lu (University of Alberta, Canada)


No. 12
VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE OF OUTDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENT USING A VR AVATAR
Takuya Onoue, Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Shinji Yoshida and Tomohiro Fukuda (Osaka University, Japan)


No. 13
LEARNING AND TEACHING DOMESTIC CONSTRUCTION COMPETENCE USING SERIOUS VIDEO GAME TECHNOLOGY
Sidney Newton, Russell Lowe and Patrick Xiao Wei Zou (The University of New South Wales, Australia)


No. 14
CONSTRUCTION LOGISTICS PLANNING BY SIMULATION
Julia Katharina Voigtmann and Hans-Joachim Bargstadt (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)


No. 15
FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT OF AN AR SYSTEM FOR SUPERVISION, COMMENTING, AND STRATEGIZING IN CONSTRUCTION
Siwook Lee, Do Hyoung Shin and Sungkwon Woo (Inha University, Korea)


No. 16
AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF WORKSPACE REQUIREMENTS USING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION
Hans-Joachim Bargstadt, Amir Elmahdi (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)


No. 17
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EARTHWORK SIMULATION SYSYTEM BASED ON BLOCK MODEL
Takashi Aruga (Conport, Co., Ltd, Japan.) , Nobuyoshi Yabuki(Osaka University, Japan) and Masanori Joko (Cyber and Real Infrastructure Research Group, Japan)


No. 18
SHAPE MEASUREMENT PLANNING OF OUTDOOR CONSTRUCTIONS WITH MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Hiroshige Dan, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Taisuke Ishigaki and Tatsuaki Nishigata (Kansai University, Japan)


No. 19
USER-CENTERED DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF E-HERITAGE: A VIRTUAL REALITY PROTOTYPE FOR LEARNING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN INFORMAL EDUCATION
Juliana Aida Abu Bakar, Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim, Murni Mahmud, Kamarul Bahrin Buyong and Maisarah Ali (International Islamic University, Malaysia)


No. 20
4D WORKSPACE CONFLICT DETECTION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM
I-Chen Wu, Yen-Chang Chiu (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan)


No. 21
INVESTIGATION OF THE NOH STAGE SPACE BASED ON THE PLOT ”JO-HA-KYU” USING VR
Naomi Matsunaga (Lemon Gasui Co Ltd., Japan) ,Nobuyoshi Yabuki (Osaka University, Japan), Yuichi Kameyama (Leon Studio Co Ltd., Japan) and Tomohiro Fukuda (Osaka University, Japan)


No. 22
CROSS-SECTIONAL SPACE DESIGN METHOD IN REAL-WORLD AND VIRTUAL-WORLD THAT USES THE CONTENTS ORIENTED SPATIAL MODEL
Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) and Kiyoshi Hoshino (Tsukuba University, Japan)


No. 23
A REINFORCING BAR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT USING VR AND 3D CAD
Yasuo Fujisawa, Shinichiro Sakashita (Yachiyo Engineering Co.,Ltd., Japan) and Nobuyoshi Yabuki (Osaka University, Japan)


No. 24
DEALING WITH BIASED RELIABILITY OF ON SITE DATA FOR THE SIMULATION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING PROCESSES
Karin Ailland and Hans-Joachim Bargstadt(Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)


No. 25
VISUAL MODELING OF OUTDOOR CONSTRUCTIONS BY DATA FUSION OF LASER SCANNING AND STRUCTURE-FROM-MOTION
Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Hiroshige Dan, Tatsuaki Nishigata and Taisuke Ishigaki (Kansai University, Japan)


No. 26
MIXED REALITY FOR MOBILE CONSTRUCTION SITE VISUALIZATION AND COMMUNICATION
Charles Woodward, Mika Hakkarainen, Otto Korkalo, Tuomas Kantonen, Miika Aittala, Kari Rainio and Kalle Kahkonen(VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)


No. 27
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM USING VR TECHNOLOGY FOR FLOW SIMURATION
Tasuku Yamazaki, Kazuo Kashiyama (Chuo University, Japan), Akira Kageyama (Kobe University, Japan), Nobuaki Ohno (JAMSTEC, Japan) and Hideo Miyachi (CYBERNET Inc., Japan)


No. 28
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERIENCED-BASED ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE EVALUATION SYSTEM USING VR TECHNOLOGY
Keisuke Shibata, Kazuo Kashiyama (Chuo University, Japan), Shinji Tajika (Keiyo Gas Co.,Ltd, Japan), Masayuki Shimura (Civil Engineering and Eco-Technology Consultants, Japan)


No. 29
OPTIMIZING SYSTEM FROM 3D LASER SCANNER DATA TO A VR MODEL FOR URBAN DESIGN STUDY
Kensuke Kitagawa, Tomohiro Fukuda and Nobuyoshi Yabuki (Osaka University, Japan)


No. 30
APPLICATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY TO PRE-PROCESSING FOR 3-D FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS
Kazuo Kashiyama, Tasuku Yamazaki, Takayuki Miyawaki (Chuo University, Japan), Kenji Hayashida (Kyushu University, Japan), Nobuaki Ohno (JAMSTEC, Japan), Akira Kageyama (Kobe University, Japan) and Kenjiro Terada (Tohoku University, Japan)


No. 31
ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR SITE LAYOUT PLANNING
Chi En Yang, Je Chian Lin, Wei Han Hung and Shih Chung Kang (National Taiwan University)


No. 32
3D VISUALIZATION OF ARTICULATED MICRO-TUNNEL BORING MACHINE DURING PIPE-JACKING OPERATIONS
Xiong Liang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), Ming Lu (University of Alberta, Canada) and Jian Ping Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)


No. 33
LEARNING FROM VIDEOGAMES LEVEL DESIGN: AN EDUCATIONAL POINT OF VIEW FOR ARCHITECTURE
Danilo Di Mascio (G. D'Annunzio University, Italy)


No. 34
EFFECT OF SIMULATION TRAINING METHODS ON OPERATOR ANXIETY AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
John C. Hildreth and Eric D. Heggestad (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)


No. 35
COORDINATION AND VISUALIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULES IN THE CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY CHAIN: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION
Mohamad Kassem, Nashwan Dawood (Teesside University, UK), Claudio Benghi (Northumbria University, UK), Mohsin Siddiqui (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, SAU) and Donald Mitchell (University of Bath, UK)


No. 36
AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO INTEGRATE H&S ISSUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PLANNING USING SERIOUS GAME ENGINE TECHNOLOGIES
Rajiv Chavada and Nashwan Dawood (Teesside University, UK)


No. 37
UTILIZATION OF VR TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHWAY SAFE DRIVING EDUCATION
Tsukasa Agatsuma (FORUM8 Co.,Ltd., Japan), Ken Nakamura and Toru Nishimura (East Nippon Expressway Co. ,Ltd., Japan)


No. 38
VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION OF WIND POWER PLANTS USING SOUND AND 3D ANIMATED GRAPHICS
Nobuyoshi Yabuki (Osaka University, Japan), Kazuhiro Sugimura (JTB West), Yutaka Yoshimura, Tadashi Matsumoto (J-Power, Japan), Tomohiro Fukuda ;Syouji Aono (Osaka University, Japan)


No. 39
DEVELOPMENT OF TELE-OPERATED ROBOTICS CRANE FOR IMPROVING ERECTION OPERATION IN CONSTRUCTION
Hung Lin Chi, Yi Chen Chen, Shih Chung Kang and Shang-Hsien Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


No. 40
BOUNDARY GENERATING METHOD FOR COLLISION DETECTION IN VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION
Wei Han Hung and Shih Chung Kang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


No. 41
DEVELOPMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PLANNING TOOL BY INTEGRATION OF APPLICATION DATA
Takanori Terashima, Nami Amarume, Koji Makanae (Miyagi University, Japan), Nashwan Dawood (Teesside University, UK)


No. 42
SCENE SIMULATION OF BRIDGE COLLAPSE BASED ON OPENSCENEGRAPH AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Zhen Xu, Xinzheng Lu, Xiao Lu and Aizhu Ren (Tsinghua University, China)


No. 43
DEVELOPING 5D SYSTEM CONNECTING COST, SCHEDULE AND 3D MODEL
Hando Kim (Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd., Korea), Claudio Benghi (Northumbria University, UK),Nashwan Dawood (Teesside University, UK), Doyoung Jung, Jaehong Kim (Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd., Korea), Yeongin BAEK (Sensorway Co., Ltd., Korea)


No. 44
DEVELOPMENT OF “GEOSPATIAL DISASTER PREVENTION INFORMATION MASH-UP SERVICE”
Mitsuaki Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Yoshida, Jun Fukami, Yuichi Matsumoto (JR East Consultants Company, Japan) and Takaaki Kato (University of Tokyo, Japan)


No. 45
DEVELOPMENT OF 3-DIMENSIONAL GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH PANORAMIC IMAGES FOR RAILWAY FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Naoto Tsuchiya, Daisuke Nakamura (East Japan Railway Company, Japan), Naoki Suzukawa, Mamoru Hoshino, Kunihiko Hasebe, Yuuichi Ishihara and Chiyoko Matsumoto (JR East Consultants Company, Japan)


No. 46
RESEARCH ON GENERATION OF A 3D MODEL USING BREAKLINE FROM POINT CLOUD DATA
Shigenori Tanaka (Kansai University), Ryuichi Imai (National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, MLIT, Japan), Kenji NAKAMURA (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), and Kouhei KAWANO (Kansai University, Japan)


No. 47
RESEARCH FOR UTILIZATION OF SPATIAL INFORMATION ON WWW FOR DISASTER PREVENTION BY MOBILE PHONE
Kantaro Monobe (Miyagi University, Japan) and Shigenori Tanaka (Kansai University, Japan)


No. 48
APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY IN IMPROVING ASSEMBLY TASK PROFICIENCY
Lei Hou and Xiangyu Wang (University of Sydney, Australia)


No. 49
A SPATIAL CONTEXT GESTURE INTERFACE
Doo Young Kwon (Korean German Institute of Technology, Korea)


No. 50
SIMULATION-BASED APPROACH TO PLANNING TEMPORARY TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENT FOR MICROTUNNELING OPERATIONS IN URBAN AREAS
Sze-chun Lau (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) and Ming Lu (University of Alberta, Canada)