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Towards a Collaborative Urban Planning Environment

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II (CSCWD 2005)

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Various urban planning stakeholders may have conflicting views on development plans and proposals. In order to achieve a shared understanding and facilitate decision making among stakeholders, this paper presents a collaborative urban planning workspace. This workspace is comprised of advanced display systems and optical tracking technologies. A distributed system framework is designed to integrate user interaction, rendering, services and data management capabilities. The system prototype has been implemented and some test scenarios have been examined with user groups.

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  1. Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Salford, M6 6AP, UK

    Jialiang Yao, Terrence Fernando & Iona Billing

  2. Intelligent and Distributed Systems, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, L16 9JD, UK

    Hissam Tawfik

  3. School of Environment and Life Science, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

    Richard Armitage

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 800 Collip Circle, N6G 4X8, London, ON, Canada

    Wei-ming Shen

  2. DSM Research Group, Department of Computer and Network Systems Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Kuo-Ming Chao

  3. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Zongkai Lin

  4. Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  5. Faculty of Engineering & Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

    Anne James

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Yao, J., Fernando, T., Tawfik, H., Armitage, R., Billing, I. (2006). Towards a Collaborative Urban Planning Environment. In: Shen, Wm., Chao, KM., Lin, Z., Barthès, JP.A., James, A. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II. CSCWD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3865. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11686699_56

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