Innovation and transformation have gained increasing significance today, especially in the context of Society 5.0. One approach to tackle this complex task is Design Thinking, that supports early exploration and validation of innovative design alternatives. The goal is to generate ideas by using different design thinking methods, based on tangible visualization of certain aspects of the problem and collaborative developed solution space. Using a workshop setting, it supports the creativity and co-creation within multi-disciplinary teams. Our approach through Scene2Model is a transformation of the physical visualization into digital conceptual models, so that they can be processed and used within modelling tools, further decomposed, and combined with available enterprise assets and enable a location and time-independent interaction.

The workshop will introduce participants to storyboards as a selected Design Thinking method. Haptic paper figures (SAP ScenesTM) are used to depict scenes and build storyboards in the context of Smart City domain. Participants will observe the end-to-end process of a tool-supported transformation from haptic paper objects into digitized models. The Scene2Model tool supports design thinking by allowing the creation and processing of digital models of innovative ideas. Additional added value comes from one of the core capabilities which supports the usage of physical co-creation in workshops and deriving enriched digital models automatically from such workshops.

Scene2Model can be obtained at https://www.omilab.org/activities/projects/details/?id=131.