The need for innovative products and business models has increased in recent years, as they are seen as an important selling point in today's economy. As a consequence, various approaches and tools were introduced to tackle such design problems. Even though these approaches have their advantages, we found a lack in approaches that consider the synergies from using tangible methods (like organising sticky notes on a whiteboard) and computer-aided tools to capture and share the knowledge beyond pictures and lengthy texts. Therefore, we propose an approach to link these two worlds (tangible and digital) and a corresponding proof-of-concept prototype in the form of the Scene2Model tool, which offers an automated transformation from tangible objects to digital models.

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