Temporal context and concurrent evaluation: Enhancing decision making at the early stages of architectural design with mixed reality technology

A summary of the historical background to architectural drawing is presented, in order to locate mixed reality technology in relation to existing design traditions. From this background two ideas are introduced-temporal visualisation and concurrent evaluation-as the conceptual underpinning to the implementation of mixed reality technology at the early stages of architectural design. A second section reviews the taxonomy of mixed reality, and clarifies the requirements for a decision support visualisation environment. In conclusion, an approach being developed at the University of Melbourne in conjunction with HITLabNZ is outlined. © 2009 Springer Netherlands.