The 29th WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS (WITS 2019) Take Part Prototype: Creating New Ways of Participation Through Augmented and Virtual Reality Jonas Fegert 1, 2 , Jella Pfeiffer 3 , Anna Golubyeva 1 , Nadine Pfeiffer-Leßmann 4 , Anuja Hariharan 5 , Patrick Renner 4 , Thies Pfeiffer 6 , Mark Hefke 5 , Tim Straub 1 , and Christof Weinhardt 2, 1 1 FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Information Management and Analytics, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2 KIT Karls- ruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Information Systems and Marketing, Karlsruhe, Germany; 3 Justus Liebig University Giessen, Chair of Digitalization, E-Business and Operations Management, Giessen, Germany; 4 Raumtänzer GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany; 5 CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany; 6 University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany {fegert, straub, golubyeva}@fzi.de, jella.pfeiffer@wirtschaft.uni-giessen.de {christian.peukert, christof.weinhardt}@kit.edu, {nadine.pfeiffer-lessmann, patrick.renner}@raumtaenzer.com, {anuja.hariharan, mark.hefke}@cas.de, thies.pfeiffer@hs-emden-leer.de Abstract. Famous examples like the Amazon headquarter in New York City or the Stuttgart 21 train station demonstrate that construction projects are often subjects of common interest and can therefore produce protests if citizens feel unheard in urban planning. In this manuscript, we would therefore like to investigate whether e-participation can be used as a tool to foster citizen involvement in construction projects that are of public interest. To this end, we present a prototype that combines participation with augmented and virtual reality. While offering a source for a better understanding of construction pro- cesses, our prototype allows users to bring in their own design suggestions and discuss these with others. With this prototype paper, we thus want to demonstrate how augmented and virtual reality can lay the ground for innovative ways of political participation that would offer great potential for project initiators and citizens. Keywords: E-Participation, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Prototype 1 Introduction Plans and ideas of construction projects of public and private institutions often remain unshared with the citizens or employees whom they affect. This might create conflict potential, which can manifest itself in dissatisfaction. The latter can lead to protests like the ones experienced in brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by KITopen