The project "Virtuelle Werkstatt" aims to combine and extend research results in multimodal human-computer interaction and immersive CAD systems to develop a generic demonstration platform for virtual prototyping based on Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Multimodal interaction is concerned with the processing of gesture and speech based user input to drive the modifications of a 3D-visualized scene. Immersive CAD is concerned with the design, exploration and evaluation of virtual prototypes of planned mechanical assemblies using VR simulations. In the application domain of variant design of "Citymobile" vehicles, the project pursues the following goals:

Research in the Virtuelle Werkstatt was carried out at the University of Lübeck, ISNM International School of New Media in cooperation with the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University of Bielefeld. You can find out more about the project on the homepage there.