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Opportunistic controls: leveraging natural affordances as tangible user interfaces for augmented reality

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Steven J. Henderson,

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VRST '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

Pages 211 - 218

https://doi.org/10.1145/1450579.1450625

Published: 27 October 2008 Publication History

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We present Opportunistic Controls, a class of user interaction techniques for augmented reality (AR) applications that support gesturing on, and receiving feedback from, otherwise unused affordances already present in the domain environment. Opportunistic Controls leverage characteristics of these affordances to provide passive haptics that ease gesture input, simplify gesture recognition, and provide tangible feedback to the user. 3D widgets are tightly coupled with affordances to provide visual feedback and hints about the functionality of the control. For example, a set of buttons is mapped to existing tactile features on domain objects. We describe examples of Opportunistic Controls that we have designed and implemented using optical marker tracking, combined with appearance-based gesture recognition. We present the results of a user study in which participants performed a simulated maintenance inspection of an aircraft engine using a set of virtual buttons implemented both as Opportunistic Controls and using simpler passive haptics. Opportunistic Controls allowed participants to complete their tasks significantly faster and were preferred over the baseline technique.

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Opportunistic controls: leveraging natural affordances as tangible user interfaces for augmented reality
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices
      2. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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VRST '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

October 2008

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ISBN:9781595939517

DOI:10.1145/1450579

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Steven Feiner
Columbia University
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Université de Bordeaux
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Bauhaus-Univ. Weimar
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TU Graz
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