Abstract
AbstractIndividuation, customer involvement, and rapid prototyping are crucial factors for developing a new product. A novel method addresses these issues by allowing both professional designers and general customers to freely express their design ideas for creating freeform product models and quickly developing physical prototypes. A virtual design environment is created to achieve natural human–computer interaction and multidesigners' collaboration via the Internet. Ray‐casting and other techniques are adopted to achieve real‐time calculation, stereo display, and haptic feedback. A design and manufacturing experiment is conducted to test feasibility and provide a preliminary understanding of how to improve this method. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 15: 445–459, 2005.
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