Context and Inquiry

This project was developed during a course called 'Design for Complex and Dynamic Contexts', where the focus was on Digital Twins and MR technology.

Traditional methods of physical prototyping often require materials, tools, labor costs, and the time to create physical prototypes that can be very expensive (Leng et al. 2021). The process of design usually requires “physical prototypes to be assembled to check and verify whether the virtual space model is accurately matched, including structure, ergonomics, and performance indexes” (Leng et al. 2021). The manufacturing of physical models can be very expensive (Leng et al. 2021). In this case modeling digital prototypes could be a good solution (Leng et al. 2021). One of the solutions can be a digital twin as “a digital prototype is a kind of rehearsal in which the information model replaces physics” (Leng et al. 2021). Some previous research showed that DT’s of the toys such as modeling ships could “create simulations that can be easily accessed and executed” (Fonseca et al. 2020).

Our team's objective was - How can MR based digital twins be useful for toy car designers?

Due to resource limitations, our team proceeded with certain assumptions of altering basic aspects of a toy car with respect to its digital twin, such that this initial prototype can be used as a proof of concept for toy car designers, for testing the car's behavior.