THE APPLICATION OF CROWDSOURCING FOR 3D INTERIOR LAYOUT DESIGN
Hao Wu, Jonathan Corney, Michael D. Grant · 2015
wdsourcing has been investigated by researchers in various domains (i.e., open innovation, linguistic study, commercial collaboration, etc.). However, less is known about the use of the crowdsourcing as a tool for collaborative design. Although the crowdsourcing has been used to carry out generative design, there are still many gaps in knowledge about the capability and limitations of the technology. For example although researchers have reported the use of the crowd to combine and evaluate designs, the application have been limited to hand sketches or 2D layouts. This paper assesses how well crowds can combine and evaluate 3D designs. An experiment, described in terms of the Crowdsourced Design framework, is presented for the collaborative creation and iterative improvement of a 3D layout. The results of the experiment make two contributions; firstly it demonstrates that 3D design can be carried out as effectively as 2D using open, could-based tools; secondly, the cDesign framework can be mapped on to the activities required to support 3D crowdsourced design tasks on the commercial crowdsourcing platform.