This article consists of a collection of slides from the author's conference presentation. Presents an overview of Mataio, a company that provides products and services in the field of augmented reality and computer vision. Some of the specific topics discussed include: corporate structure, product launchings, markets served, and major areas of technnological innovation in the field.

Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR), a new generation of technology, has attracted the attention of educators in recent years. In this study, a MagicBook was developed for a neuroanatomy topic by using mobile augmented reality (mAR) technology. This technology integrates virtual learning objects into the real world and allow users to interact with the environment using mobile devices. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of learning anatomy via mAR on medical students' academic achievement and cognitive load. The mixed method was applied in the study. The random sample consisted of 70 second-year undergraduate medical students: 34 in an experimental group and 36 in a control group. Academic achievement test and cognitive load scale were used as data collection tool. A one-way MANOVA test was used for analysis. The experimental group, which used mAR applications, reported higher achievement and lower cognitive load. The use of mAR applications in anatomy education contributed to the formation of an effective and productive learning environment. Student cognitive load decreased as abstract information became concrete in printed books via multimedia materials in mAR applications. Additionally, students were able to access the materials in the MagicBook anytime and anywhere they wanted. The mobile learning approach helped students learn better by exerting less cognitive effort. Moreover, the sensory experience and real time interaction with environment may provide learning satisfaction and enable students to structure their knowledge to complete the learning tasks. Anat Sci Educ 9: 411-421. © 2016 American Association of Anatomists.

Learning anatomy via mobile augmented reality: Effects on achievement and cognitive load.

Augmented reality (AR) is an important technology to enhance learning experiences. Many studies have been conducted to establish the tendencies, affordances and challenges of this technology in educational settings. However, these studies have little analyzed important issues such as the special needs of specific users or the impact of AR on education through the quantitative analysis of the data. This paper presents a literature review that covers 61 studies published between 2012 and 2018 in scientific journals and conference proceedings. As a result, it identifies the status and tendencies in the usage of AR in education, the impact of this technology on learning processes, open questions as well as opportunities and challenges for developers and practitioners. The results indicate that AR has a medium effect on learning effectiveness (d = .64, p < .001). The most reported advantages of AR systems in education are “learning gains” and “motivation.” Otherwise, it is also important to mention that only one of the AR systems of the studies includes accessibility features, which represents a setback in terms of social inclusion. Therefore, given the apparent multiple benefits of using AR systems in educational settings, stakeholders have great opportunities to develop new and better systems that benefit all learners. This technology covers a wide range of topics, target groups, academic levels and more. This could be an indicator that AR is achieving maturity and has successfully taken root in educational settings.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of augmented reality in educational settings

The aim of this article is to analyze and review the scientific literature relating to the application of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in industry. AR technology is becoming increasingly diffu...

Augmented reality technology in the manufacturing industry: A review of the last decade

April 24-29, 2004 Vienna, Austria

Chi 2004

The easy access and availability of wireless technologies and mobile computing and internet have lead to new opportunities in developing mobile applications which purpose is to make people’s life more easier. Nowadays, a person can possess more than one mobile device intend for different usage such as communication, entertainment, office works. This paper proposes a mobile application which will be able to estimate the position of a user within a building by using WIFI technology.

WIFI-Based Indoor Positioning System

Due to advancements in the mobile technology and the presence of strong mobile platforms, it is now possible to use the revolutionising augmented reality technology in mobiles This research work is based on the understanding of different types of learning theories, concept of mobile learning and mobile augmented reality and discusses how applications using these advanced technologies can shape today's education systems

Android mobile augmented reality application based on different learning theories for primary school children

Tourism studies have noted that insufficient attention has been paid to the experience and practices of the tourist. Tourism research does not help to explain the nature of modern mass tourism. The most detailed research that has been done is tourist information seeking, but the literature has tended to avoid detailed qualitative description, focusing more on broad categorizations of tourist practice [7]. The purpose of this article is to show how I will go about in creating a tourist catalogue that uses augmented reality. This catalogue will help tourists both domestic and foreign get visual aid for viewing objects on a simple map. This article shows the extent this new technology has been explored in to and how much has been implemented. This article focuses on explaining what augmented reality is and the methodology that will be used to go about this new and unexploited technology.

Augmented Reality Tourist Catalogue Using Mobile Technology

Facial Expression Recognition is a part of biometric authentication that focuses on uniquely recognizing human facial appearance based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits and inside emotions portrayed on one’s face. This paper explains on research based on improving current surveillance systems by adding facial expression recognition to make a system that will detect a person’s expression (who has intentions of causing harm) and report to the securities before the person can commit any prohibited work. The system captures ones feeling/expressions through a camera and send the footage for preprocessing before it can be extracted to see if the emotion/expression captured has the intentions of causing harm.

Facial expression recognition intelligent security system for real time surveillance

Handheld devices are popular device for an Augmented Reality application. It has a basic hardware requirement for AR system. However it must be overcome some technical obstacle to realize its true power. One of the problems is interaction in handheld AR environment. Touch screen interaction is one of the common interaction methods in handheld AR but it is not easy to interact in touch screen with virtual object in handheld AR scene. Current research shows that Freeze Interaction technique shows its usefulness in handheld touch screen AR interaction. However it has a drawback such as, when users freeze their view it freezes the whole scene. When virtual object are updating continuously the real world-view is not being updated and remains as still picture. It can be a problem when users need to deal with current up-to date real world scene. To overcome current problem of Freeze Interaction technique we have implemented new freeze technique 'Freeze-Object' for more precise interaction. This paper presents a short review of handheld AR interaction technique and our proposed work.

Behrang Parhizkar

Papers

WIFI-Based Indoor Positioning System

Android mobile augmented reality application based on different learning theories for primary school children

Augmented Reality Tourist Catalogue Using Mobile Technology

Facial expression recognition intelligent security system for real time surveillance

Handheld Augmented Reality Interaction Technique