Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/197439/1207.0203v1.pdf

Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions

This paper surveys the field of augmented reality AR, in which 3D virtual objects are integrated into a 3D real environment in real time. It describes the medical, manufacturing, visualization, path planning, entertainment, and military applications that have been explored. This paper describes the characteristics of augmented reality systems, including a detailed discussion of the tradeoffs between optical and video blending approaches. Registration and sensing errors are two of the biggest problems in building effective augmented reality systems, so this paper summarizes current efforts to overcome these problems. Future directions and areas requiring further research are discussed. This survey provides a starting point for anyone interested in researching or using augmented reality.

/pdf/a-survey-of-augmented-reality-17irtaxt7z.pdf

A survey of augmented reality

From the Publisher: 
A Question of Identity 
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." 
Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. 
This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

物件導向軟體之架構(Object-Oriented Software Construction)探討

Drawbacks of online education, especially at scale, include the isolation and loss of community that come with taking classes from one's home rather than in a typical coordinated classroom. In this series of studies, we explore the potential of an immersive virtual environment to recreate shared educational contexts in an online program, emphasizing those that focus on universal dynamics like discussions, Q&A, and lecture-watching. Using Mozilla Hubs-which offers virtual reality as well as a browser-based immersive environment for participants without VR headsets-we implement three common, student-driven on-campus environments: a lecture hall, a student lounge, and a poster session. We test these environments with students in an online graduate program through surveys and a controlled experiment. We find significant interest in the potential of these environments, but hurdles to their adoption as well.

Content-Neutral Immersive Environments for Cultivating Scalable Camaraderie

In this paper we present an approach for exposing tracking technology in an accessible and flexible way to users of a rapid prototyping system for mixed (MR) and augmented reality (AR). Our system provides a tracking framework that alleviates the need for a high level of expertise while also presenting a model of the technology that allows for flexible modification of tracking configurations, the ability to quickly change an application from one type of tracking technology to another, and the creation of synthetic trackers for playback of prerecorded data, data fusion from multiple trackers, and wizard-of-oz applications.

/pdf/making-tracking-technology-accessible-in-a-rapid-prototyping-1n7rarnhu1.pdf

Making Tracking Technology Accessible in a Rapid Prototyping Environment

Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and other realities along the Mixed Reality(MR) continuum use multi-sensory displays and spatial interaction to enable a number of usefuland novel applications. These virtual worlds are able to train, explore and entertain in addition toaugment the real world with information for our everyday lives. To perform tasks such as traveland other interaction, researchers in these worlds have focused heavily on issues of three-dimensionalinteraction, including interaction techniques, user interface metaphors and inputdevices but always with an outlook centric to their particular position along the MR continuum.This has resulted in interfaces tuned to certain MR instances that are not possible in them allbecause of factors such as the display types, tracking issues or interference and limits from thereal world.This panel brings together diverse researchers across the MR continuum to discuss theirresearch and dissect the similarities and differences of each other's fields. The result is anunderstanding of interfaces across these realities and a merger of developing terminology,techniques and tools for future collaborations.Panel members will give a description of their research followed by a short vision of futureinterface research. Audience questions submitted via index cards are heavily encouraged andexpected to shape the panel discussion and direction.

Mixed reality: the continuum from virtual to augmented reality

In this paper we will discuss the initial results of an ongoing research project exploring the potential of augmented reality as an entertainment medium. We summarize two projects that exploit different aspects of the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds in immersivefirst person augmented reality (AR), and report on their results. The first project, A Mad Tea Party, explores how procedural characters and symmetries in the physical and virtual worlds can expose interaction possibilities and increase immersion of the experience. The second, Three Angry Men, explores how the first person point-of-view and temporal discontinuities can be used to create a compelling experience. We will also briefly discuss our conceptual framework of remediating existing media forms (film, stage, and interactive CD-ROM) and building on cultural expectations of our users.

/pdf/using-augmented-reality-for-entertainment-2o7hjgdjke.pdf

Using augmented reality for entertainment

The current generation of handheld devices have substantially greater processor speeds and graphics capabilities than the previous generation. With these gains, handheld devices have crossed an important technological threshold. It is now possible to blend the methods and practices used to create larger scale Augmented Reality (AR) experiences with those used to design handheld games. Handheld Augmented Reality (HAR) games render rich graphical content into live video of the physical world, captured from the integrated camera and displayed on the handheld device. We are particularly interested in using HAR technologies that create a tight coupling between virtual content and objects in the physical world, enabling styles of interaction and types of play that leverage the clear relationships between the physical and virtual worlds. The resulting HAR games represent a new genre of gaming with its own unique set of affordances.

/pdf/tabletop-augmented-reality-games-play-outside-the-display-1zevch67wt.pdf

Blair MacIntyre

Papers

Content-Neutral Immersive Environments for Cultivating Scalable Camaraderie

Making Tracking Technology Accessible in a Rapid Prototyping Environment

Mixed reality: the continuum from virtual to augmented reality

Using augmented reality for entertainment

Tabletop Augmented Reality Games: Play Outside the Display [Abstract]