Visualising the effect of geometrical variation in assembled products: Predicting visual quality appearance

Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola

Volumn , Issue 2235, 2005, Pages

  Wickman, Casper ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Empirical studies; Geometric variation; Method development; Tolerancing; Virtual reality; Visual quality appearance; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; FITS AND TOLERANCES; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GEOMETRIC VARIATIONS; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; TOLERANCING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL QUALITY APPEARANCE (VQA);

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 14844354857     PISSN: 0346718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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