Experiencing touchless interaction with augmented content on wearable head-mounted displays in cultural heritage applications

Caggianese, Giuseppe; Frucci, Maria; Gallo, Luigi; Neroni, Pietro

doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0987-8

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“…Few papers recognised factors surrounding environmental conditions. Only 2 papers were found to report on the influence of lighting when interacting indoors and outdoors [15,49], one of which also discussed the impact of ambient noise levels [49] when employing speech input. 3 papers were found to report on longitudinal studies, to assess learning curves [48,67].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Review of Interaction Techniques for Immersive Environments

Spittle

Frutos-Pascual

Creed

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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The recent proliferation of immersive technology has led to the rapid adoption of consumer-ready hardware for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). While this increase has resulted in a variety of platforms that can offer a richer interactive experience, the advances in technology bring more variability in display types, interaction sensors and use cases. This provides a spectrum of device-specific interaction possibilities, with each offering a tailor-made solution for delivering immersive experiences to users, but often with an inherent lack of standardisation across devices and applications. To address this, a systematic review and an evaluation of explicit, task-based interaction methods in immersive environments are presented in this paper. A corpus of papers published between 2013 and 2020 is reviewed to thoroughly explore state-of-the-art user studies, which investigate input methods and their implementation for immersive interaction tasks (pointing, selection, translation, rotation, scale, viewport, menu-based and abstract). Focus is given to how input methods have been applied within the spectrum of immersive technology (AR, VR, XR). This is achieved by categorising findings based on display type, input method, study type, use case and task. Results illustrate key trends surrounding the benefits and limitations of each interaction technique and highlight the gaps in current research. The review provides a foundation for understanding the current and future directions for interaction studies in immersive environments, which, at this pivotal point in XR technology adoption, provides routes forward for achieving more valuable, intuitive and natural interactive experiences.

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“…Studies conducted 'in the wild' were primarily related to specific use cases (i.e. a cultural heritage site [15], care home [68] or in an industrial environment [69,86]), with Alallah et al [1] exploring fundamental interaction in public spaces. Participants were again asked to remain static for most studies.…”

Section: Study Typementioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Interaction Techniques for Immersive Environments

Spittle

Frutos-Pascual

Creed

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…Mobile applications and audio information guides designed for exploration of cultural heritage, such as in museums and galleries, are now common (Bujari et al 2016;Chiu, Tseng, and Hsu 2017;Julier et al 2016;Smirnov, Kashevnik, and Ponomarev 2016). AR is becoming an increasingly used feature in such apps, especially when designed for indoors use (Brancati et al 2016;Capuano et al 2016; tom Dieck and Jung 2017). However, historic and cultural sites are often located in outdoor contexts, which is an environment with many interfering elements.…”

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An experimental study on the role of augmented reality content type in an outdoor site exploration

Javornik

Kostopoulou

Rogers

et al. 2018

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Overlaying a building with images from the past can be an engaging way to explore a historic site. However, little is known about what type of content functions well when using augmented reality (AR) in outdoor contexts. This research investigates how different types of AR content-such as text or image-can affect the flow experience as well as other cognitive, affective and behavioral responses. We ran an experimental study with 85 participants at a university campus, where three groups used different apps-AR app with overlaid textual information, AR app with overlaid both textual information and images and an app with audio guide-to explore the area's historic and cultural background. The results show that overlaying images in addition to the text was clearly the most successful way of attracting attention and providing stronger flow in comparison to the apps that overlaid only text or delivered audio. However, we also discovered that users occasionally interpreted the overlaid imagery to be cues for something else other than what they were designed to represent. Finally, we discuss how AR content can enlarge otherwise invisible details, depict historic elements and unveil interiors of buildings.

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“…Nowadays, there are many AR apps in all sorts of fields, such as medicine, manufacturing, education, robot path planning, military aircraft, entertainment and even tourism. Moreover AR provides a new way to show the cultural heritage that provides the user enriching experiences [7,8]. In recent years, many AR apps are developed especially on mobile apps to disseminate cultural heritage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Augmented reality application assessment for disseminating rock art

Blanco-Pons

Carrión-Ruiz

Lerma

2018

Multimed Tools Appl

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Currently, marker-based tracking is the most used method to develop augmented reality (AR) applications (apps). However, this method cannot be applied in some complex and outdoor settings such as prehistoric rock art sites owing to the fact that the usage of markers is restricted on site. Thus, natural feature tracking methods have to be used. There is a wide range of libraries to develop AR apps based on natural feature tracking. In this paper, a comparative study of Vuforia and ARToolKit libraries is carried out, analysing factors such as distance, occlusion and lighting conditions that affect user experience in both indoor and outdoor environments, and eventually the app developer. Our analysis confirms that Vuforia's user experience indoor is better, faster and flicker-free whether the images are properly enhanced, but it does not work properly on site. Therefore, the development of AR apps for complex outdoor environments such as rock art sites should be performed with ARToolKit.

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Experiencing touchless interaction with augmented content on wearable head-mounted displays in cultural heritage applications

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

A Review of Interaction Techniques for Immersive Environments

A Review of Interaction Techniques for Immersive Environments

An experimental study on the role of augmented reality content type in an outdoor site exploration

Augmented reality application assessment for disseminating rock art

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