Thai children's participation in development of 3D virtual village

Abstract

This paper present the process of virtual world's adaptation to the vision of the real environment designed by the children of two primary Thai schools - a state school and a private school. The main point of the present paper is presentation of empirical research that is an analysis of four exercises - inquiries in which I asked children to draw the elements of their city and social life. The first task was to represent a route from home to school. Next, children were asked to draw the plan of their school, on which they had to differentiate the places dedicated to them, the common spaces and the spaces for another people. The last exercise done at school was related to the description of their family and their closest friends. At the end, the children were asked to draw an inside of their houses with the maximum of details. The results of representations of the daily life environments analysed and synthesised were rebuilt with the graphic computer tools. They will serve as the base of the conception of a 3D virtual village dedicated to the Thai children. ©2010, Association for Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Research in Asia (CAADRIA).