Fwd: ACADIA 2011 notification for paper 273

[Flora Salim]

Dear all,

I am forwarding the reviewers' comments for our papers. It is a really good feedback overall, which motivates us to continue researching and developing the prototypes. (Jacob and David, don't worry if you don't see your name listed in the reviewers' reports as I got your reply quite late last time. However, I will include your names in the paper when submitting a revision).

I have replied the Chair and said that the paper will be presented and some of us will attend the conference.

Now we need to work on revising the paper.

In order for us to collaborate on the revision, the last version of the paper was uploaded to Google docs (with no images):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UrTo_l97YE4aJJz0EaEaPhnXa5mI_F0gfW9NGl2Lu2E/edit?hl=en_US#

The pdf version (with images) was also uploaded:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6Znbf93mhkTNjI4Mjk3ZDAtNzc0OS00YzFmLWI0M2EtMDUzMGY1YWJlNTk5&hl=en_US

Feel free to edit.

Cheers,

Flora

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ACADIA 2011 <acadi...@easychair.org>
To: Flora Salim <flora...@rmit.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:04:41 +0100
Subject: ACADIA 2011 notification for paper 273
Dear Flora,

The blind peer review has been completed and we are pleased to inform
you that your paper titled Informing Architecture and Urban Modeling with Real-World Data on 3D Tangible Interfaces and Augmented Displays has been selected for presentation
at the ACADIA 2011 Conference in Banff (13-16 October 2011) and
publication in the conference proceedings.

Please take reviewers' comments into account as you prepare the final
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Please note that you must adhere to specific formatting requirements for
the final paper submission, which are available at the conference website:

http://www.acadia.org/acadia2011/acadia2011-conference-styleguide-x.doc

Final papers should not exceed 4,000 words and must be submitted by June
15, 2011.

Please respond immediately to this email, stating that you will attend
the conference and present your paper. If we do not hear from you by May
30, 2011, we will assume that you will not present your work at the
conference; as a consequence, your paper will not be included in the
conference proceedings. Please note each accepted paper has to be
presented by named authors. Another condition for the inclusion of the
accepted paper into the proceedings is the full payment of the
registration fee, which is due by July 15, 2011.

We congratulate you on your paper acceptance and look forward to seeing
you in Calgary and Banff in October. Additional information about the
conference (such as the registration fee payment) will be posted in the
near future on our website:

http://www.acadia.org/acadia2011/index.html


Sincerely,

ACADIA 2011 Conference Team:
Jason S. Johnson, Branko Kolarevic, Vera Parlac and Joshua M. Taron


----------------------- REVIEW 1 ---------------------
PAPER: 273
TITLE: Informing Architecture and Urban Modeling with Real-World Data on 3D Tangible Interfaces and Augmented Displays
AUTHORS: Flora Salim, Przemyslaw Jaworski, Martin Kaftan, Eva Friedrich, Rafael Urquiza S, Suhee Oh, John Fihn, Jose Luis P Galaso, Rafael Roa H, Tore Banke, Jakob Bak, Raul Kalvo, Stefan Di Leo, Davide Madeddu and Joao Albuquerque

The ppaper presents a fascinating conjunction of multiple plaforms and information formats. The specificity of the description is
refreshing and valuable. The only shortcomings are in the conclusions drawn from the incredibly novel technical work. Though the
technical hurdles overcome are inspiring, the implications drawn by the author from the technical innovations are typical of "better
decisions from better interfaces and interactivity." The innovations are so novel that I would like to encourage the author to go
beyond the boilerplate to draw new speculations about where this kind of work is heading.


----------------------- REVIEW 2 ---------------------
PAPER: 273
TITLE: Informing Architecture and Urban Modeling with Real-World Data on 3D Tangible Interfaces and Augmented Displays
AUTHORS: Flora Salim, Przemyslaw Jaworski, Martin Kaftan, Eva Friedrich, Rafael Urquiza S, Suhee Oh, John Fihn, Jose Luis P Galaso, Rafael Roa H, Tore Banke, Jakob Bak, Raul Kalvo, Stefan Di Leo, Davide Madeddu and Joao Albuquerque

I think there are a number of interesting projects and/or software app ideas here, maybe too many. The paper reads like a list of potential software/project ideas - I believe it should instead communicate outcomes.  The author doesn't provide information sufficient to evaluate the merits of any of the projects described. I suggest the paper describe in greater depth each of the projects/apps, the methodology used, with outcomes and an assessment. Possibly the paper should be broken up into several papers, by project.

The writing needs a lot of work.


----------------------- REVIEW 3 ---------------------
PAPER: 273
TITLE: Informing Architecture and Urban Modeling with Real-World Data on 3D Tangible Interfaces and Augmented Displays
AUTHORS: Flora Salim, Przemyslaw Jaworski, Martin Kaftan, Eva Friedrich, Rafael Urquiza S, Suhee Oh, John Fihn, Jose Luis P Galaso, Rafael Roa H, Tore Banke, Jakob Bak, Raul Kalvo, Stefan Di Leo, Davide Madeddu and Joao Albuquerque

This paper hinges on the value of real-time feedback. For this alone the paper makes a very strong contribution to the areas of architecture and compotation.   I feel as though each project could be a paper in itself and am left with many technical questions related to each project.  In the end however all of the projects are lumped together in a manner that that convinces you of the synergistic importance of these projects.

On a particular note, I appreciate the possibility to integrate with Ecotect in terms of daylight analysis (4.1) but an wondering if this was tested or not?
Also, the uPlanSim (4.2) seems to be a great tool but those aspects touted in the introduction which include layers of real time information seem not to have been implemented or tested.  This is precisely the area which seems to make the greatest contribution in general.