DCDC – Design for Complex and Dynamic Contexts
2025
TwinCity
TwinCity is a Mixed Reality simulation platform, The goal was to develop a collaborative emergency response tool using a 3D digital twin city placed on a physical table, enabling intuitive and real-time spatial planning. Users can rotate, annotate, and explore a photorealistic 3D map using hand gestures via Meta Quest headsets. Multi-user collaboration is supported through Shared Spatial Anchors (SSA) and Photon Fusion networking, allowing synchronized interaction from multiple devices in the same physical space.
Dread-Wall
The Dread-Wall project is a collaborative mixed reality (MR) escape room experience designed for two players. The core idea centers around time-based puzzle solving, environmental pressure, and teamwork. One player wears a Meta Quest headset and interacts with the virtual environment, while the other player in the co-located virtual environment assists physically by using an Arduino-based button system that triggers puzzle elements.
SolScope XR
In this project, we propose the development of SolScope XR a Digital Twin of a residential house using Unity. This virtual representation will allow users to interactively explore the installation and performance of solar panels under different conditions, such as roof tilt angles and panel quantities. The Digital Twin will be enriched with real-world data obtained from the Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS), provided by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) through their public dataset.
PlantPulse
PlantPulse XR is an interactive XR-based system that helps individuals monitor and care for indoor plants using IoT sensors and a collaborative Digital Twin experience. Each plant is equipped with a soil moisture sensor, temperature sensor and light sensor connected to a replica in an XR app developed in Unity with Meta XR tools.
This blend of technology allows users to better understand their plant’s needs and act accordingly.
2024
Emission Vision
Emission Vision is a digital twin implemented in mixed reality and designed to provide an interactive and collaborative way of analyzing global CO2 emissions data and each country’s contribution. Over the years, CO2 emissions have steadily climbed and continue to rise. Consequently, it is crucial for policymakers and environmental analysts to provide accurate projections based on data patterns. By integrating real-world environmental data into a 3D visualization, Emission Vision enables users to better explore, analyze, and compare the complex trends of CO2 emissions ratio around the world over time. Users can easily compare countries’ contributions, gain insights from the data, and collaborate in real-time, allowing analysts to work together to address global environmental challenges.
Twin Turbine
Welcome to TwinTurbine, a cutting-edge digital twin project designed to let you experience the operation of a wind turbine in a mixed reality (MR) environment. MR enables multi-user collaboration, allowing multiple users to monitor and control the wind turbine’s operations from remote locations. By leveraging MR, users can visualize the wind turbine and its real-time data in a Mixed reality environment, receive immediate feedback, and interact dynamically with the physical turbine throughout the experience. As accessing a real physical turbine was not feasible, we used a scaled physical turbine model to accurately emulate the behavior of a real wind turbine.
2023
TwinTide
With the ongoing rise of sea levels, urban planning in coastal zones is in need of applications and tools that will give accurate predictions of where flooding can occur so that preventative measures can be taken. TwinTide engages with this topic. It is an urban planning tool in coastal zones that utilizes the technology of Digital Twin (DT) and Mixed Reality (MR) while also allowing multiple users to collaborate at the same time.
BloomTwins
BloomTwins is an MR collaborative experience with a Digital Twin of a houseplant. The project seamlessly integrates physical and virtual components by digitally replicating a houseplant and visualizing its data (temperature, light intensity, humidity, and soil parameters). Plant owners can interact with experienced individuals, receive advice, and communicate regardless of location.
DroneX
The DroneX project is an approach to drone piloting that combines mixed reality with real-world elements in the concept of the digital twins. The project aims to provide a unique and realistic drone piloting experience for both beginners and experienced individuals in the field.
BuildMRide
BuildMRide is a Collaborative Mixed Reality (MR) experience that allows two users to make alterations to a Digital Twin (DT) of a toy car. The purpose of the experience is to allow toy car designers to make and test new iterations of their creation in order to evaluate its performance without assembling a physical prototype. The use of DT and MR minimizes the use of physical materials used for prototypes as well as the labor cost of assembling the different iterations.
2022
This project presents an interactive AR prototype that simulates people-flow congestion in a food court, along with a proposed solution.
This project simulates crowd-flow dynamics and user interactions in a high-traffic mall area through an AR prototype.
This project, through an AR prototype., explores ways to improve the flow of people based on observations from a metro station connected to a mall.