Augmented reality authoring: generic context from programmer to designer

  • Authors:
  • Alastair Hampshire;Hartmut Seichter;Raphaël Grasset;Mark Billinghurst

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Developing an Augmented Reality (AR) application is usually a long and non-intuitive task. Few methodologies address this problem and tools implementing these are limited or non-existent. To date there is no efficient and easy development tool tailored to the needs of Mixed Reality (MR). We are presenting an initial taxonomy of MR applications, addressing the different levels of abstraction for defining the relation between real and virtual world. We then demonstrate some development approaches and describe tools and libraries that we implemented in order to illustrate aspects of our authoring taxonomy. Finally, we provide a definition addressing the requirements for new generation of AR rapid application development (RAD) tools based on actual implementations.