MOBILE VIDEO AUGMENTED REALITY FOR SPATIAL NAVIGATIONDigital Media DesignFinal Year ProjectSharon Brosnan – 0651869sharonbrosnandmd.blogspot.com

OVERVIEW

Specification, design and prototype development of an Augmented Reality (AR) interface for mobile phones to aid navigation of Bunratty Folk Park

Visitor Support for the centre

Tool: Augmented Reality toolkit ported to a smartphone

Further research of bigger project in the IDC

AUGMENTED REALITY

Puts layers of virtual/digital information to a persons physical environment (live video) in real time

Digital information and communication capabilities

Enhance the persons experience

Powerful user interface

On Smartphone Platform Uses global tracking, wireless communications,

location based computing, cameras and mobile computing

EXAMPLES OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN UL

Wikitude

Layar

BUNRATTY FOLK PARK

Detailed and customisable experience, introducing ICT assist to visitors

Interact in a natural way with enhanced capabilities maintaining character of folk park

Enhance visitor satisfaction Usability Experience Engagement

Visitor can shape their own experience

On demand information

‘ENHANCING THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE AT VISITOR ATTRACTIONS THROUGH THE ADOPTION OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY’

RESEARCH Papers

Websites

Similar Projects

‘MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY’

Context Aware computing environments

In tourism Find destinations, display information 3D models of related information to a place/object Wide range of possibilities

Components Needed, Displays, Usage, Wireless Network Issues

Challenges Making visuals informative and realistic Computing Platforms

(Holler and Feiner, 2004)

‘LOCATION AWARE MOBILE INTERACTIVE GUIDES: USABILITY ISSUES’

‘CONTEXT-AWARENESS IN MOBILE TOURIST INFORMATION SYSTEMS: CHALLENGES FOR USER INTERACTION’

Discusses mobile tourist information systems, and how to model, observe, and evaluate application area

Context Aware Device Challenges Characteristics of mobile device - storage and screen size Network - bandwidth and peers Application - requirements in storage, download

capabilities and display capabilities User - time, location Information objects – location

Interaction HCI Consistency

(Hinze and Buchanan, 2005)

BUNRATTY FOLK PARK

FUTURE READINGS

Open Air Museums

Mobile Tours

Augmented Reality in Tourism

ARToolKit tutorials

Designing Interactive Systems

Human Computer Interaction Design of Handheld Devices

PLAN OF ACTION

Research in to more papers

Develop research

Organise several trips to Bunratty Folk Park Design workshops Interaction Groups

Iterative Design Process Concept design generation Design scenario Storyboards

TECHNICAL ASPECTS

ARToolKit – Augmented Reality Toolkit

C and C++

Single camera position tracking

Code uses black squares as marker patterns

Easy camera calibration code

Overlays information on environment in real time

Available for Mac OSX, Linux and Microsoft Windows

TIMELINE

THE WORLD BECOMES A USER INTERFACE.

(Holler and Feiner, 2004)

REFERENCES Abowd, G.D., Atkekson, C.G., Hong, J., Long, S., Kooper, R., and

Pinkerton, M. (1997) ‘Cyberguide: A Mobile Context Aware Tour’, Science Publishers, Wireless Networks 3, 421-433

Broadbent, J., and Marti, P. (1997) ‘Location Aware Mobile Interactive Guides: Usability Issues’ Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, 1-15

Deegan, J., Hayes M., Ciolfi, L., McLoughlin, M., and Bannon, L. ‘Enhancing the Visitor Experience at Visitor Attractions through the Adoption of Information & Communication Technology’

Hinze, A. and Buchanan, G. (2005) ‘Context-Awareness in Mobile Tourist Information Systems: Challenges for User Interaction’ Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Volume 48, 257 – 266

Holler, T.H. and Feiner S. K. (2004) Mobile Augmented Reality, Telegeoinformatics: Location-Based Computing and Services