sketchand+ is the outcome of my final Diplom project as an Architect with Specialization in CAAD at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. My vision was to integrate an emerging technology with the existing workflow. Following through with this vision I developed a collaborative augmented reality application for sketching and the early stages of design.

The three dimensional sketches are created by using strokes on an augmented digitizer-tablet. Beside that the software' server system tracks design stages, keeps a repository, handles sound messages as well as written text messages. Everything is controlled from within the Mixed Reality Environment using tangible interaction techniques enabled through simple props. The software is based on the AR Toolkit and uses an early version of the libTAP VR/AR framework

With my friends from the chair for virtual reality systems we developed a simpler version based on sketchand to go directly on the site and evaluate our design. For registration we used a blown-up marker. Actually the quality of video was far from optimal but it provided us with a proof of concept for further investigation into design support systems.

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