Co-assembler - Supporting Collaborative Product Configuration for Customer-oriented e-Commerce

Author

Soo, Sophia M K ; Chan, Stephen C F ; Ng, Vincent T Y

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The ability to interactively and collaboratively configure and re-configure 3D products on the Internet is an important facilitator for e-commerce. We describe the design of such a system, co-assembler, that enables casual customers to perform limited configurations of 3D products over the Internet. We discuss the technical challenges and outline our solution. We also describe the application of artificial intelligence to assist the customer in configuring the desired product. The system aims to capture customers´ needs and convert them into technical specifications, helping to facilitate e-commerce for manufacturing enterprises

Keywords

Internet; assembling; electronic commerce; furniture industry; solid modelling; virtual reality; 3D product assembly; Internet; artificial intelligence; co-assembler system; collaborative product configuration; customer-oriented e-commerce; manufacturing enterprises; technical specification; Assembly systems; Collaborative work; Feedback; Geometry; International collaboration; Internet; Layout; Manufacturing; Solid modeling; Three dimensional displays; 3D product configuration; Co-assembler; collaborative work;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0164-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0165-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253156

Filename

4019192