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Increasing Agility: A Tangible XR for Rapid Prototype Development, Design Exploration and Usability Assessment

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Agile processes demand for increasing flexibility in product development and shorter development periods. Especially when it comes to product assessments, products have to run through a complex and often expensive development cycle before first user tests can be conducted. We are developing a method where a tangible XR (EXtended Reality) is used for product assessment in an agile development process with evolving the product from a virtual to a physical state. This approach is illustrated in a prototypical example of the implementation of an automotive interior design of a tangible XR car door opening mechanism.

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This work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2023 Internet of Production – 390621612.

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Meyer, R., Preutenborbeck, M., Usai, M., Briele, K., Witzel, A., Flemisch, F.O. (2021). Increasing Agility: A Tangible XR for Rapid Prototype Development, Design Exploration and Usability Assessment. In: Trzcielinski, S., Mrugalska, B., Karwowski, W., Rossi, E., Di Nicolantonio, M. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80462-6_11

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