Two real-world case studies on 3D web applications for participatory urban planning |
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Author: | Alatalo, Toni1,2; Pouke, Matti1; Koskela, Timo1; |
Organizations: |
1University of Oulu 2Playsign Ltd. |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 12.7 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019041212073 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Association for Computing Machinery,
2017
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Publish Date: | 2019-04-12 |
Description: |
Abstract3D Web is a potential platform for publishing and distributing 3D visualizations that have proven useful in enabling the participation of the general public in urban planning. However, technical requirements imposed by detailed and rich real-world plans and related functionalities are demanding for 3D web technologies. In this paper we explore the maturity of modern 3D web technologies in participatory urban planning through two real-world case studies. Applications built on Unity-based platform are published on the web to allow the general public to create, browse and comment on urban plans. The virtual models of seven urban development sites of different visual styles are optimized in terms of download sizes and memory use to be feasible on browsers used by the general public. We report qualitative feedback from users and present a technical analysis of the applications in terms of download sizes, runtime performance and memory use. We summarize the findings of the case studies into an assessment of the general feasibility of modern 3D web technologies in web-based urban planning. see all
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ISBN Print: | 978-1-4503-4955-0 |
Article number: | 11 |
DOI: | 10.1145/3055624.3075950 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1145/3055624.3075950 |
Host publication: |
Web3D '17 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology : Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — June 05 - 07, 2017 |
Conference: |
International Conference on Web3D Technology |
Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
This work has been supported by the 6Aika: Open City Model as Open Innovation Platform (A71143) and the Open Innovation Platform (A70202) projects funded the ERDF and the City of Oulu under the Six City Strategy program, and the COMBAT project (293389) funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland. Playsign application development has been carried out in the Collaborative City Co-design PlatfOrm (C³PO) ITEA2 project from call 8 (reference: 13016) with financing by the Technology Development center of Finland (TEKES). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
293389 |
Detailed Information: |
293389 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
© 2017 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Web3D '17 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology : Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — June 05 - 07, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3055624.3075950. |