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February 2013

Week 8 summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games   The paper discusses about leveraging Embodied Interactions by using pre-patterns for HAR games. HAR games have started gaining popularity because of new technology such as Kinect and Wii. And one important question that designers has to ask themselves while designing for AR is what […]

Week 8 Summary

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games   Any problem with a new alternative technology is, that its development is lead by developers. The initial work and examples on it focus on the technical boundaries they are able to push. However, a problem that starts becoming evident as the technology matures and […]

[Summaries week 8]: Task gallery, Design Pre-patterns

The Task Gallery: A 3D Windows Manager In this paper, the authors describe their system, The Task Gallery, which is a novel 3D windows manager, focusing on the usability aspects of their system. Their work is motivated by the desire to leverage human spatial memory to allow for more efficient task management in contemporary computing […]

Summaries for week 8

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Game Today’s game industry evolves towards intuitive or AR games, which do not require additional skills from the player. This paper focuses on Handheld Augmented Reality (HAR) where virtual content is added to the real world thanks to an embodied video camera, and describes how these […]

Week 8

The Task Gallery: A 3D Window Manager -George Robertson, Maarten van Dantzich, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Ken Hinckley, Kirsten Risden, David Thiel, Vadim Gorokhovsky In this paper the authors propose a 3D window management system that is expected to be the next iteration of currently available 2D managers. The authors leverage an art gallery metaphor […]

Week 8

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games This study presents design patterns in Handheld Augmented Reality Games by adopting the lens of embodied interaction.  By identifying the underlying human factors, this study bridges the gap between interaction and game design. This study found nine design patterns as follows. Device Metaphors :  Using […]

Week 8 Summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games This paper aimed to connect AR research and game design communities to help to improve handheld augmented reality game experience. The authors share their from designing and analyzing HAR games by presenting a collection of design pre-pattern for HAR games. Nine most significant pre-patterns which […]

Week 8 Summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games The authors suggest that HAR technology can be used to create fun and compelling HAR games if the designers can correctly leverage users existing physical and social skills to interact with the system and with other players. So the authors summarize their experience in designing […]

Week 8 Summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games This paper is very interesting according to me, because it attempts at doing something novel. The motivation behind the paper is to formalize the design of AR games by coming up with various pre-patterns to bridge the gap between interaction and game design. The problem […]

week 8 summaries – Hitesh

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games The paper talks about the research of design patterns and principles in reality based interfaces such as Handheld Augmented Reality (HAR) interfaces, which create embodied game play experiences. Being a fairly recent and evolving field, design patterns for HAR are referred to as “Pre-design” patterns […]

week 8 summaries

The Task Gallery   The Task Gallery is unique workspace in virtual environment letting users to be more productive working in 3D environment using working knowledge of human perception. The Task Gallery is a room shaped 3D application that lets users to manage tasks and windows with controlling virtual user in the virtual environment. The […]

Discussion of The Task Gallery

Questions for discussion: How could a 3D window manager like The Task Gallery be improved by using multiple monitors? In what tasks would a 3D environment aid in productivity? What design aspects of The Task Gallery could be changed to gain more benefits? Who is the target audience for 3D window managers? How would the […]

[week 8 summaries]

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games In this paper, the author summarized nine different pre-patterns that can be applied in designing Handheld AR (HAR). These pre-patterns are: device metaphor, control mapping, design for the seams, world consistency, landmarks, personal presence, living creatures, hiding/revealing information and body constraint. Those categories are extracted […]

Week 8

The Task Gallery : A 3D Windows Manager. In this paper authors introduce a novel window manager The Task Gallery. It makes use of interactive 3D Graphics to aid in task management and several other things. In this system user tasks appear as artwork on the walls of a gallery with the selected ones presented […]

Week 8 Summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games Handheld Augmented Reality is a growing field and HAR Gaming especially is attracting a lot of attention. But there have not been an official studies or researches that formalize the techniques used to create HAR. In this paper, the authors propose a set of 9 […]

week 8 summaries Aurelien

The task gallery: a 3D window manager The task gallery is windows-like  3D environments which provides a desktop interface to perform tasks. In this environment the tasks are displayed on the wall, floor and ceiling. The user can drag the task and grouping them in different places. The navigation is contraints to no be lost […]

Shane’s week 8 summaries

Pre-Patterns: This is a design paper written about some design patterns for AR application mostly games in this case.  It covers nine patterns discovered over the production of several projects and games.  The first pattern they cover is device metaphors which is essentially using the software to emulate a common device that people already know […]

Week 8 Summaries

The Task Gallery: A 3D Window Manager Task management has several component: creating, locating and bringing tasks into focus. The task gallery is designed to meet the goal of task management. This is a 3D environment in which the current task is displayed in the front wall when other tasks are displayed and the floor, […]

Week 8 Summaries

Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions In this paper, the authors want to develop repeatable principles and solutions for handheld AR game design. Their goal is to share experience on designing and evaluating these games. Designers need to think about the new experience that AR can support, as well as the constrains and complexity of the […]

Discussion of AR design Principals

Questions for discussion. How would an interface design vary from a HMD to a Handheld device such as an iPhone? Can it? When evaluating the effectiveness of a AR interface, can/should it be treated as a physical interface, virtual interface or what kind of combination of those? Are computer displays and software interfaces the closest […]

Week 7 Summary : AR supported collaboration

The two papers we read this week had a common theme that they enable collaboration, allowing multiple people to participate on a singular “workbench” though enable a personal view for each viewer. Each paper uses a different technique to enable head-tracking of each user. SCAPE: Stereoscopic Collaboration In Augmented and Projective Environments. Multiple users can […]

[Summaries Week 7]: Scape, Multi-viewer tabletop auto-stereoscopic display

Scape: Supporting Stereoscopic Collaboration in Augmented and Projective Environments In the paper, Hua et al. talk about the design of a system that allows for collaboration in augmented environments. Their proposed system, Scape, allows for users to engage in face-to-face cooperation, while also providing each user with her unique stereo perspective for the augmented scene. […]

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display Autostereoscopic Displays provide stereoscopic perception without the use of special headgear or glasses on the part of the viewer. Lack of success in the adoption of autostereoscopic displays  was justified by being expensive or cheap with a limited functionality. This study benefits from “Random Hole Display”(RHD) concept to produce […]

Week 7 summaries

SCAPE:  Stereoscopic Collaboration In Augmented and Projective Environments. SCAPE basically provides multiple users with a shared workspace so that they can concurrently observe and interact with the 3d virtual environment while face to face cooperation among local participants is preserved.  This allows the users to dynamically switch focus between shared workspace and interpersonal communication space. […]

Week 7 Summaries

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display Autostereo display technologies can be divided into three branches, holo-graphics, volumetric, and parallax-based. Parallax-based displays are based on barriers or lenticular lens sheet. By placing barrier sheet at a small distance in front of the display panel, the left and right eyes of a viewer can see different part […]

week 7 summaries – Hitesh

Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display The paper mentions a novel and practical Auto stereoscopic tabletop displays which would provide stereo perception to multiple users without special glasses. The main challenge is to provide multiple stereo viewpoints to different users at the same time through the same interface. Existing auto stereo display technologies mostly fall under three […]

Week 7 Summaries

 Scape A 3D, interactive, collaborative, virtual environment is discussed in the paper. In this research an attempt to bridge the gap between virtual and augmented reality paradigms is met with success. This is achieved using range of devices such as Head Mounted Projective Displays, workbench, walled display, tracked objects in the room, magnetic trackers, DataGlove  […]

Summaries for week 7

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display Autostereoscopic display allows stereo perception without HMD or glasses, and allows people or objects to interact as if they were in the same place. However, it did not meet success for the while because of its price. The technique used here is the Random Hole Display (RHD) concept, but […]

Project proposal [Olivier Aurelien]

We decided to implement a control of the map game, you can play on your iphone or ipad. The goal is to control point on a map, we will use the georgia tech campus as the map and the different places for the points. The rules are simple: There is two teams and at the […]

Multi-user virtual workspaces

Scape: Supporting Stereoscopic Collaboration in Augmented and Projective Environments -Hong Hua, Leonard D. Brown and Chunyu Gao Scape is a project aimed at allowing multiple users to collaborate on the same workbench using different AR and VR techniques. The authors have used head mounted projected displays with stereoscopic views, data gloves and surfaces coated with […]

Random Hole Display, SCAPE

Paper summary for week 7 by Andy To my mind, the work described in Ye, State, and Fuchs on Random Hole Displays means that increasing pixel densities in display technology can mean big gains for 3DUI. The RHD technology works by taking a high density display, and randomly sampling the visible pixels by obscuring the […]

Week 7 Summary

Paper Presentation & Summary for Week 7 : Here are the links to my paper: 1) Main Paper –  Scape: supporting stereoscopic collaboration in augmented and projective environments – Hong Hua, Leonard Brown and Chunyu Gao Here are the two related papers. The first one is relatively old while the second one is more recent compared to […]

Week 7 Summaries

Tabletop Autostereo This paper is about tabletop autostereoscopic display and its real-time rendering method. Their system allows viewers to see a different subset of pixels through the random-hole screen. Its advantage is to provide stereo perception without having users wear glasses. Their work is based on a previous concept named “Random Hole Display”. The authors […]

week 7 summaries [Aurelien]

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display Autostereoscopic displays give a perception of 3D without wearing glasses and allow to see different images when moving around them. There is 3 types of autostereoscopic display : holographic, volumetric and parallax-based. Parallax based display could be made with: – a barrier with holes. When both eyes of the […]

Week 7 Summary

SCAPE:  Stereoscopic Collaboration In Augmented and Projective Environments. The paper introduces SCAPE a collaborative infrastructure for Augmented and Projective Environments.  Scape aims at creating a virtual environment which could be accessible by multiple people at the same time. Earlier it was really difficult to provide individuals with their respective perspectives. Scape focuses on providing individuals […]

Week 7 Summaries

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display The paper discusses methods and technologies used to create a multi-viewer tabletop autostereoscopic display.  The display had the requirements of multiple users begin able to see 3D content on the display from different angles.  Previous work had been done in this area but the main driving factor in this […]

Week 7 Summaries

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display The authors introduce a multi-user autostereoscopic tabletop display and its associated real-time rendering methods. They use the “Random Hole Display” design that modified the pattern of openings in a barrier mounted in front of a flat panel display from thin slits to a dense pattern of tiny, pseudo-randomly placed […]

Shane’s Week 7 Summaries

Multi-viewer Tabletop: This paper is about the construction and inner workings of  a new type of Autostereoscopic table top display.  The basic goal is to devise a display that will render different views to a number of users all position at various positions around the display.  This problem has been attacked before using s few […]

[week 7 summaries]

Scape: Supporting Stereoscopic Collaboration in Augmented and Projective Environments This papers talks about a system that supports immersive and interactive virtual reality with multiple users. These augmented environment mainly contains two parts: the microscene on the workbench and macroscene on the walls. Microscene The microscene is projected on the workbench coated with a material called […]

Ruge’s Week 7 Summaries

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display This paper discusses a few of the technologies used to create stereoscopic displays that support multiple separate viewers without the need for user worn hardware such as glasses or head mounts. It begins with discussing the various existing technologies, focusing on the Random Hole Displays. The majority of the […]

Week 7 : summaries

A Practical Multi-viewer Tabletop Autostereoscopic Display  Auto stereoscopic displays provide stereo perception without using glasses. The Random Hole Display inspires the system. RHD proposes a dense pattern of tiny, pseudo-randomly placed holes. Hence, multiple viewers at multiple locations will see multiple views.  But those kinds of system are only calibrated for four users’ position and […]

AR Content Generation through Web Technologies

Matt Ruge and Paul Plunkett Many technologies and solutions have already been developed for virtual and augmented reality, but one of the largest lacking pieces is content.  In order to effectively add information, content, and experiences to the world, someone has to create that content.  Tools such as Augmented Reality Web Browsers, and applications that […]

week 6 summary – Hitesh

Importance of Stereo and Eye-Coupled Perspective for Eye-Hand Coordination in Fish Tank VR The paper intends to investigate the importance of different kinds of depth cues in 3D perception depending upon the kind of task being performed. It also takes into account the probable advantages of head tracking for visual guided tasks. The two depth cues being referred […]

Idea for AR games

This is an article to those who want to do gaming AR and need some inspiration. The basics of the block by block seems to be interesting base on what we seen in class with Argon. http://www.fastcompany.com/1313885/five-addictive-augmented-reality-gaming-apps

Fishbowl Fitts’ Law

In this paper, Arsenault and Ware report on the effects of head tracking and stereo imaging for eye-hand coordination in a mixed reality environment. The authors use a Fitts’ law type experiment to study the effect on reaction times when subjects are forced to move their heads to look around a barrier in an Fishtank […]

Week 6 Summary: Stereo vs. Eye-coupled perspective

Before reading this paper, I googled Fish Tank VR and found the Colin Ware and Kevin Arthur paper title “Fish tank Virtual reality” and their abstract concluded that head coupling is probably more important than stereo in 3D visualization and that head coupling and stereo combined provide an important enhancement to monitor based computer graphics. When I […]

[Summary Week 6] The importance of stereo and eye-coupled perspective for eye-hand coordination in Fishtank VR

In their paper, Arsenault and Ware discuss the relative importance of stereo-based and motion-parallax based depth cues in a virtual environment. Stereo depth cues are provided due to disparities between the pair of images formed in the left and the right eye, for the same scene. Motion-parallax also provides a monocular depth cue, arising due to the […]

week 6 summary [Aurelien Bonnafont]

This paper explain how produce a VR environment with an accurate vision of depth and compare head tracking and Stereoscopic vision in the case of visually guided task. Stereopsis allows us to compute the distance of objects to the user, and this technique is useful with a high resolution screen. Motion parallax is the depth […]

Week 6 Summary

The importance of Stereo and Eye Couple Perspective for Eye-Hand Coordination in Fish Tank VR   Stereoscopic depth information is gained from disparities whereas motion parallax information is obtained when the user moves relative to the environment. Previous studies have shown that stereoscopic viewing has a large advantage in visually guided tasks but head tracking […]

Week 6 Summary

The importance of Stereo and Eye Couple Perspective for Eye-Hand Coordination in Fish Tank VR – Roland Arsenault and Colin Ware The term “Fish Tank VR” means a method for creating a small high-quality virtual environment. This paper tries to compare the impact of Stereoscopic Depth and Motion Parallax while touching, reaching objects in a […]