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PREFACE:

With the advancement of digital technologies, Architecture, Design and Construction are constantly endeavouring to reach new horizons: Mixed Reality (MR) enriches their processes to these new destinies. 

In this book, we introduce MR technologies, research and their applications in architecture, design and construction arenas. The chapters address fundamental issues of MR and present impacts they have on these fields.

 As more researchers progressively employ MR as their base of enquiry, we see a need for a reference guide bringing the existing status of MR into awareness and expanding on recent research. We include in this book, a range of invited chapters from leading researchers in the field of Mixed Reality in architecture, design and construction.

 All authors are experts and/or top researchers in their respective areas and each of the chapters has been rigorously reviewed for intellectual content by the editorial team to ensure a high quality. Predominantly, the chapters introduce most recent research projects on theories, applications and solutions of environments that employ MR and its technologies.

 More specifically, the central focus of the volume is on the manner in which they can be applied to influence practices in architecture, design collaboration, construction and education.

Introduction :

To begin, we introduce, define and describe the various realms of Mixed Reality in the chapter Framing Mixed Realities. This overview of MR sets the context and frames the scope of the book. 

We describe the various realms of the Reality-Virtuality continuum and highlight their applications with key research works that are undertaken in the respective areas. This chapter is then followed by four sections in which there are chapters relating to architecture, design collaboration, construction and education.

We express our gratitude to all authors for their enthusiasm to contribute their research as published here. This book would not have been possible without the constructive comments and advice from Professor John Gero, from the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. We are also deeply grateful to our external editor Dr Jennifer Gamble at The University of Sydney, whose expertise and commitment were extraordinary.

 Thanks and appreciation goes to Ms Janie Yip for designing our book cover. Weare also grateful to our external reader Ms Mercedes Paulini as well as Ms Rui Wang, whose backup support on things both small and large made the process a pleasant one. Financial aid came from Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.