BIRS – Evaluation of virtual room components during the room planning process

Real sampling is cost and space intensive. With the introduction of Virtual Reality technology it is possible to carry out sampling in virtual space. The construction industry hopes that this will not only lead to efficiency gains, but also to opportunities for short-term behavioural changes, variant studies and greater acceptance in the stakeholder process.

Due to the lack of a study situation in the technical literature, an initial informative study carried out at the FHNW and the importance of determining success factors in the building sampling process, the VTI Lab of the FHNW and SSA Architects want to carry out an applied research and development project together in the building planning process.

The University of Applied Psychology would like to help to gain new knowledge about the factors determining the success of acceptance and assessment in the use of VR.