Fata Morgana " A Presentation System for Product Design

  • Authors:
  • Gudrun Klinker;Allen H. Dutoit;Martin Bauer;Johannes Bayer;Vinko Novak;Dietmar Matzke

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISMAR '02 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Mobile Augmented Reality applications promise substantial savings in time and costs for product designers, in particular, for large products requiring scale models and expensive clay mockups (e.g., cars). Such applications are novel and introduce interesting challenges when attempting to describe them to potential users and stakeholders. For example, it is difficult, a priori, to assess the nonfunctional requirements of such applications and anticipate the usability issues that the product designers are likely to raise. In this paper, we describe our efforts to develop a proof-of-concept AR system for car designers. Over the course of a year, we developed two prototypes, one within a university context, the other at a car manufacturer. The lessons learned from both efforts illustrate the technical and human challenges encountered when closely collaborating with the end user in the design of a novel application.