Future Service, Retail, Metaverse, and Robotics

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Design for Future Service, Metaverse, and Robotics

Thanks to all students from SOD and SAID who have participated in the projects. We also want to thank the help from Kroger and UC Digital Future.

Redesign retail and other service experiences (retail space, in-person service, digital service, technology) and rethink customer/business needs. Envision the future service experience of retail, hospitality, and delivery: 1) physical, 2) digital, and 3) a combination of both. Research questions include:  What does the “future retail store” look like? How the online shopping and local stores pick up change the architecture of a store? How the metaverse and immersive experience can be integrated with retail? Can public and recreational programs be introduced into stores to enhance customers’ experience? How can robots assist employees and businesses in providing better service to customers? When robots coexist with people, how can we make robots more understandable and usable?

Collaborative design work from the College of DAAP.

Students: SAID, SOD

Faculty: Ming Tang, Yong-Gyun Ghim, College of DAAP, UC

SAID course description

This four-credit workshop course includes both a seminar and project development format, and develops techniques for digital modeling as they influence the process of viewing, visualizing, and forming spatial and formal relationships. The course encourages operational connections among different techniques for inquiry and visualization as a critical methodology in the design process.

Students: Ryan Adams, Varun Bhimanpally, Ryan Carlson, Brianna Castner, Matthew Davis, John Duke, Prajakta Sanjay Gangapurkar, Jordan Gantz, Alissa Gonda, Justin Hamilton, Emma Hill, Anneke Hoskins, Philip Hummel, Jahnavi Joshi, Patrick Leesman, Tommy Lindenschmidt, Peter Loayza, Jacob Mackin, Jordan Major, Julio Martinez, Jacob McGowan, Simon Needham, Hilda Rivera, Juvita Sajan, Gavin Sharp, Hannah Webster, Megan Welch, Meghana Yelagandula, Isaiah Zuercher.

Final presentation videos.

SOD Studio description

Mobile Robotics Studio envisions how robotic technology can better assist people in service environments benefiting both customers and employees. Based on human-centered design and systems thinking approaches, cross-disciplinary teams of industrial, communication, and fashion design students created design solutions for product-service systems of mobile robots in retail, air travel, sports, delivery, and emergency services. 

Students: Noon Akathapon, Kai Bettermann, Cy Burkhart, Jian Cui, Joe Curtsinger, Emmy Gentile, Bradley Hickman, Quinn Matava, Colin McGrail, James McKenzie, Alex Mueller, John Pappalardo, Kurtis Rogers, Connor Rusnak, Jimmy Tran, Franklin Vallant, Leo von Boetticher

 

 

seminar: Design in the Age of Metaverse and Extended Reality

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ARCH 7036-004 / ARCH5051.Elective Arch Theory Seminar.  Spring semester. DAAP, UC.
Design in the Age of Metaverse and Extended Reality

Instructor: Ming Tang.  Director, Extended Reality Lab. XR-Lab, Associate Professor, SAID, DAAP, University of Cincinnati

 

This seminar course focuses on the intersection of architecture design, and interior design with immersive visualization technologies, including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Digital Twin, social VR, and real-time simulation. The class will explore the new spatial experience in the virtual realm and analyze human perceptions through hand-tracking, body-tracking, haptic simulation, and various sensory inputs. Students will learn both the theoretical framework and hands-on skills on XR development. The course will provide students exposure to the Oculus Quest, Teslasuit, Hololens technologies, and wearable sensors. Students are encouraged to propose their own or group research on the subject of future design with XR.

Hardware: Oculus Quest, and Hololens were provided by the course.

Student Research Project

Digital Twin

AR for community engagement. Price Hill

 

References:

Recommended podcast on Metaverse

 

 

Augmented Craftmanship @CAADRIA

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Tang, M. Augmented Craftmanship: assessing augmented reality for design-build education. 27th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). Sydney, Australia. April. 2022

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Burning Man project

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Burning Man project from the ARCH 7014. Fall 2021. digital twin prototype.

Tools: Stage, Unreal, 3dsMax, Rhino.

Videos by students

Research on Digital Design, Computation and ARCH VIZ

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Here are four groups of presentations by students at DAAP, UC on various topics related to Digital Design, Computation, ARCH VIZ.

Ming Tang. ARCH 7014 Fall 2021. University of Cincinnati

Group A.

  1. Impact of BIM on architecture and construction management
  2. Generative Design and multi-variable optimization Using Octopus Plugin In Rhino
  3. Using Grasshopper to apply brick patterns on polysurfaces
  4. Utilizing V-Ray for Rhino to create photorealistic renders
  5. The impact of Metaverse on social life. How can be advantageous and disadvantageous
  6. VR and Architecture, how its used and how it benefits to Architecture
  7. Voronoi Patterning + Parametric Modeling; research
    demo
  8. GIS Demo- how it can help your architecture
  9. Rhino inside Revit Plug in – General uses

 

Group B

  1. Demo using EvoMass Grasshopper Plug-in for Optimization-Based Design Exploration
  2. Using Animation to visualize Futurism in Architecture (Reference to Greg Lynn: Animate Form)
  3. Rhino Animation using Grasshopper
  4. Ladybug analysis of shading solutions for home in Eden Park – Generative Shade Design and Shade benefit analysis
  5. Revit + Dynamo (Generative Design)
  6. exploring lighting technology and rtx capabilities
  7. Environmental Analysis Plug-ins for Grasshopper
  8. Additive Digital Fabrication: Creating Controlled Chaos in 3D Printing
  9. site design plugin for rhino

Group C

  1. Generative design of buildings in Revit
    Demo
  2. Maya Animation – Kinetic Architecture
  3. Demo of Pufferfish Plugin for Grasshopper
  4. Origami and parametric modeling
    demo
  5. LB for bldg evaluation. Environment performance
  6. Generative design of buildings in Revit
    demo
  7. How drones and aerial surveys can make construction and architecture more efficient and save costs
  8. Adobe After Effects Projection-Mapping -Placemaking/Wayfinding
  9. Demo using Fusion 360 for parametric design, animation, rendering

Group D

  1. using rhino to create models and forms using Sub D and surface modeling
    part2
    Part 3
  2. Visualization Techniques to Document Existing Buildings or Products Exploring AutoDesk ReCap – Photo
  3. Revit + Rhino inside Revit + GH + Dynamo for parametric solar-based facade and building design around existing structures
  4. Theory-based video essay on growing up with 3d software and games & its effects on a new generation of designers
  5. demo on basics of kangaroo grasshopper plugin to create interesting forms
  6. Use lumion to create a phasing animation of a building, 
    final result
  7. Using Vray to render a scene with caustics.
  8. Creating Digital Environments with Unreal + Quixel