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Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry

Organized by HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis, 19th - 20th November 2007 at Cinta Sayang Golf and Country Resort, Kedah.

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Main Authors: Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar, Umar Kassim, Khairul Nizar Ismail
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis 2008
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Virtual reality
House building
Exploration study
Questionnaire
Human-computer interaction
Computer vision in construction
Building > Malaysia
Construction industry > Malaysia
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/1894
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spelling my.unimap-18942008-09-02T03:27:26Z Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar Umar Kassim Khairul Nizar Ismail Virtual reality House building Exploration study Questionnaire Human-computer interaction Computer vision in construction Building -- Malaysia Construction industry -- Malaysia Organized by HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis, 19th - 20th November 2007 at Cinta Sayang Golf and Country Resort, Kedah. The virtual reality (VR) technology is an emerging technology that enables interactive real-time viewing of three-dimentional data. This technology is widely adopted in the western world, particularly for house building industry. It offered a wide range of benefit in the area of initial design, refining design ideas and marketing purposes. Despite these advantages, the technology has not been widely used in this country although Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and government incentives have been given as part of country’s agenda. One of the dominant reasons is that a lack of knowledge regarding VR technolgy that lead to the very low usage of this technology in the industry. The main purpose of this study was to determine the perception of the industry players on the VR technology that led to three variation of perception. Firstly, the company who have a knowledge and used the technology before. Secondly, those who heard the technology but never used it before and thirdly from those who never heard of it and never used it in their project. An exploratory study was selected since the research is so new and vague in the industry. The study was conducted by using questionnaire survey sent to 200 house building companies. The findings revealed that the main factors that could be related to the poor usage of the technology in this country was due to the lack of skill workers, low involvement of client and availability of ICT internally. Although the industry acknowledged the benefits of using such a technology, the lack of trainings, courses and seminars on the area of VR hampered the usage of this technology in the industry. 2008-09-02T03:27:26Z 2008-09-02T03:27:26Z 2007-11-19 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1894 en Malaysian Infrastructure Technology Conference (INFRATECH 2007) HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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language English
topic Virtual reality
House building
Exploration study
Questionnaire
Human-computer interaction
Computer vision in construction
Building -- Malaysia
Construction industry -- Malaysia
spellingShingle Virtual reality
House building
Exploration study
Questionnaire
Human-computer interaction
Computer vision in construction
Building -- Malaysia
Construction industry -- Malaysia
Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar
Umar Kassim
Khairul Nizar Ismail
Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
description Organized by HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis, 19th - 20th November 2007 at Cinta Sayang Golf and Country Resort, Kedah.
format Working Paper
author Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar
Umar Kassim
Khairul Nizar Ismail
author_facet Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar
Umar Kassim
Khairul Nizar Ismail
author_sort Wan Mohd Sabki Wan Omar
title Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
title_short Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
title_full Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
title_fullStr Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
title_full_unstemmed Virtual Reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
title_sort virtual reality technology application: exploration study among house building companies in construction industry
publisher HBP-INFRATECH Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) & IEM Kedah/Perlis
publishDate 2008
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/1894
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