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Building Use, Operation and Maintenance Manual Assisted by Augmented Reality

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 Building Use, Operation and Maintenance
Manual Assisted by Augmented Reality
Ph.D. Candidate: Lorena Moreira . Advisor: Regina Ruschel . PDSE Program Supervisor: Amir Behzadan
University of Campinas - UNICAMP; Architecture, Technology and City Program - São Paulo, Brazil

Background Results
The Building Use, Operation, and Maintenance Manual, The contribution granted presents insertion models of
also known as the Building Owner's Manual (BOM), is a AR technology in the BOMs, qualifies the AR
document that provides all the information necessary to incorporation, through experiments with measurement
guide Brazilian home owners maintain and preserve their method following the protocol NASA TLX, and
buildings. However, such manuals are in most cases indicates a structuring of efforts by the agents involved
presented in the textual format with sparse technical terms. to optimize the manual for AR technology. In addition, it
A potential remedy to this situation is to enhance the provides two artifacts in the form of applications
traditional building manual’s using augmented reality (AR) (Living Augmented Reality - LAR and Manual
that enables the displaying of virtual (computer generated) Augmented Reality - MAR) exemplifying the
graphics overlaid on views of the real environment. technological potential and producing, in practice, the
generation of scientific knowledge.

Objective AR prototype development

Evaluate the incorporation of AR features into the

Building Owner's Manual in order to qualify its use.

6 - Devices

Materials and Methods NASA TLX Experiment MAR and LAR

The methodology adopted is Design Science Research 40 36

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NASA TLX Overall Workload

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(DSR), used to simultaneously achieve two different 20

purposes in a research project: producing scientific

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knowledge, and helping organizations to solve real

MAR - Tablet LAR - Tablet
LAR - Smartglasses MAR - Smartglasses
Traditional Manual

problems.
Identification of the problem

Smart glasses used in the experiment Marker

Awareness of the problem Systematic Literature Review

Identification of the artifacts and configuration of the classes of problems

Proposition of artifacts to solve a specific problem

Design, development and evaluation of the artifact

Clarification of the learning achieved

Generalization for a class of problems and Conclusion

communication of results
In short, it was proved that the insertion of AR
Conclutions technology, regardless of the format acts favorably
Research steps
integrated with the BOMs, optimizing its orientation
role and recommending the best use of the building. In
addition, the agents involved in the construction process,
learning to better deal with the inherent aspects of
operation and maintenance, through the manual assisted
by AR, will collaborate to improve the construction
The steps also include compare different display formats for AR
(tablet and smart glasses) and identify the greater acceptance AR performance with repairs and costs reduction incurred
format. with a building.

About the author Acknowledgements Prototypes (beta version)

Lorena Moreira is an architect, Ph.D
candidate at UNICAMP and professor
at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Email: lorenasm@ufba.br
www.linkedin.com/lorenamoreira-ufba
The author gratefully acknowledge the support
of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES)
and would also like to thank Julio Tonoli,
Gustavo Taufic, and Khandakar Rashid for the
technical assistance throughout this project.
The apps Living Augmented Reality (LAR) and
Manual Augmented Reality (MAR) are
available on Apple Store.
They will be available soon
on Android devices.

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