A Tangible Spherical Proxy for Object Manipulation in Augmented Reality

Englmeier, David; Dorner, Julia; Butz, Andreas; Höllerer, Tobias

doi:10.1109/vr46266.2020.00041

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“…We believe more sophisticated customized tangible devices could be more effective for certain types of tasks, such as the ones in Refs. [37][38][39] and those devices could be interesting to test in future studies. Additionally, the design space of embodiment on desktop and in VR is huge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Various studies have confirmed the benefits of using 3D input devices as physical proxies. [32][33][34][35][36][37][38] Meanwhile, Hand 19 and Besanc xon et al 18 provided comprehensive reviews of such 3D devices. However, many tangible 3D input devices (e.g.…”

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“…those ones in Refs. [37][38][39] ) are customized for studies and not easily accessible to ordinary users. Thus, in our study, we chose to test a broadly available trackball mouse as our proxy.…”

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“…Building upon existing work in human-robot interaction (for a review see [111]) and human activity recognition (for a review see [39]), we can develop solutions to recognize natural human gestures as well as relevant activities in AR scenarios. Alternatively, tangible user interfaces allow users to manipulate virtual content using a physical proxy, tracked using optical or inertial sensors -for example in [44] a Vive Tracker [77] equipped with infrared and inertial sensors was placed inside a physical sphere used for interaction. One could also leverage IoT tactile sensors present in the environment, such as touchscreens, physical buttons, or pressure sensors; a recent example of the latter, particularly relevant to robotic and biomedical applications, was developed in [36], and is able to detect contact pressure, contact shape, and shear direction.…”

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Next-generation augmented reality (AR) promises a high degree of context-awareness -a detailed knowledge of the environmental, user, social and system conditions in which an AR experience takes place. This will facilitate both the closer integration of the real and virtual worlds, and the provision of context-specific content or adaptations. However, environmental awareness in particular is challenging to achieve using AR devices alone; not only are these mobile devices' view of an environment spatially and temporally limited, but the data obtained by onboard sensors is frequently inaccurate and incomplete. This, combined with the fact that many aspects of core AR functionality and user experiences are impacted by properties of the real environment, motivates the use of ambient IoT devices, wireless sensors and actuators placed in the surrounding environment, for the measurement and optimization of environment properties. In this book chapter we categorize and examine the wide variety of ways in which these IoT sensors and actuators can support or enhance AR experiences, including quantitative insights and proof-of-concept systems that will inform the development of future solutions. We outline the challenges and opportunities associated with several important research directions which must be addressed to realize the full potential of next-generation AR.

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“…Reality environments due to their manipulability and ability to be used as a proxy [2,7,8,21,37]. The work of Feick et al [8] produced a toolkit for prototyping such tangible artefacts for virtual environments, using low-fidelity and modular 'shape primitives', to support proxy-based interactions.…”

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Houben

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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This pictorial introduces TangibleTouch, a toolkit to design and build interactive tangible cubes using capacitive sensing. This toolkit enables designers to quickly prototype and explore tangible cubes with exchangeable capacitive panels that allows touch-based gestures and interactions that can be used for tangible input in VR, AR, or physical computing. We introduce a design space for TangibleTouch, and present the technical implementation, fabrication approaches, and software support for designers. We evaluate our toolkit by demonstrating its use and application for 3 different case studies: a media controller, a platform game, and a 3D model inspection tool. The contribution of our work is a novel toolkit method for constructing and fabricating a cube-based interactive tangible user interface.

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A Tangible Spherical Proxy for Object Manipulation in Augmented Reality

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Is embodied interaction beneficial? A study on navigating network visualizations

Is embodied interaction beneficial? A study on navigating network visualizations

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TangibleTouch: A Toolkit for Designing Surface-based Gestures for Tangible Interfaces

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