D3.1 Report on cognitive issues in VR-aided design environments

careful review of the requirements (cf. D1.1) is complemented by consulting with architects and engineers in exploratory interview sessions. A distributed cognition approach allows us to model design as a collaborative activity of an entire design team, including human actors as well as their physical and digital surroundings in the environment. UML-inspired sequence diagrams provide an abstract view on team activities in terms of who exchanges information using which media. Case studies on tracing as a design medium complete our study of established design practices in AEC industries. The analyses will guide the upcoming development and research activities in WP3and PrismArch as a whole