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Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book provides an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. Special features: emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately, shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects, provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle, and offers information on the unique issues relating to informational usability. You do not need to have previous knowledge of usability to implement the methods provided, yet all of the latest research is covered.

Usability Engineering

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.

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A survey of augmented reality

Humans perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world with apparent ease. However, despite all of the recent advances in computer vision research, the dream of having a computer interpret an image at the same level as a two-year old remains elusive. Why is computer vision such a challenging problem and what is the current state of the art? Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications explores the variety of techniques commonly used to analyze and interpret images. It also describes challenging real-world applications where vision is being successfully used, both for specialized applications such as medical imaging, and for fun, consumer-level tasks such as image editing and stitching, which students can apply to their own personal photos and videos. More than just a source of recipes, this exceptionally authoritative and comprehensive textbook/reference also takes a scientific approach to basic vision problems, formulating physical models of the imaging process before inverting them to produce descriptions of a scene. These problems are also analyzed using statistical models and solved using rigorous engineering techniques Topics and features: structured to support active curricula and project-oriented courses, with tips in the Introduction for using the book in a variety of customized courses; presents exercises at the end of each chapter with a heavy emphasis on testing algorithms and containing numerous suggestions for small mid-term projects; provides additional material and more detailed mathematical topics in the Appendices, which cover linear algebra, numerical techniques, and Bayesian estimation theory; suggests additional reading at the end of each chapter, including the latest research in each sub-field, in addition to a full Bibliography at the end of the book; supplies supplementary course material for students at the associated website, http://szeliski.org/Book/. Suitable for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in computer science or engineering, this textbook focuses on basic techniques that work under real-world conditions and encourages students to push their creative boundaries. Its design and exposition also make it eminently suitable as a unique reference to the fundamental techniques and current research literature in computer vision.

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Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications

Paul Milgram received the BASc degree from the University of Toronto in 1970, the MSEE degree from the Technion (Israel) in 1973 and the PhD degree from the University of Toronto in 1980 From 1980 to 1982 he was a ZWO Visiting Scientist and a NATO Postdoctoral in the Netherlands, researching automobile driving behaviour From 1982 to 1984 he was a Senior Research Engineer in Human Engineering at the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, where his work involved the modelling of aircraft flight crew activity, advanced display concepts and control loops with human operators in space teleoperation Since 1986 he has worked at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Toronto, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Human Factors Engineering group He is also cross appointed to the Department of Psychology In 1993-94 he was an invited researcher at the ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, in Kyoto, Japan His research interests include display and control issues in telerobotics and virtual environments, stereoscopic video and computer graphics, cognitive engineering, and human factors issues in medicine He is also President of Translucent Technologies, a company which produces "Plato" liquid crystal visual occlusion spectacles (of which he is the inventor), for visual and psychomotor research

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A Taxonomy of Mixed Reality Visual Displays

This paper presents our vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI): "Tangible Bits." Tangible Bits allows users to "grasp & manipulate" bits in the center of users’ attention by coupling the bits with everyday physical objects and architectural surfaces. Tangible Bits also enables users to be aware of background bits at the periphery of human perception using ambient display media such as light, sound, airflow, and water movement in an augmented space. The goal of Tangible Bits is to bridge the gaps between both cyberspace and the physical environment, as well as the foreground and background of human activities. This paper describes three key concepts of Tangible Bits: interactive surfaces; the coupling of bits with graspable physical objects; and ambient media for background awareness. We illustrate these concepts with three prototype systems ‐ the metaDESK, transBOARD and ambientROOM ‐ to identify underlying research issues.

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Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms

Lets go out: Research in outdoor mixed and augmented reality

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have been explored by researchers for nearly a half century. Over the past few years, however, VR has experienced a renaissance, as head-worn display developer kits have metamorphosed into early consumer products, all far superior to what most VR researchers previously had available. Meanwhile, AR head-worn display developer kits are being released, even as Pokemon Go has caused public awareness of hand-held AR to skyrocket.What role will wireless computing play in the future of wearable VR and AR systems? I will suggest some of the ways in which future wearable hardware, software, and user interfaces could benefit from wireless technology, and describe some of the performance constraints that wireless systems must meet for this to be possible. For example, in the quest to develop lightweight eyewear, it will be advantageous to move as much technology as possible off the head, to other parts of the body or to the nearby environment. This will demand reliably low latency and high throughput for the asymmetric round trip from head-worn sensors, to off-head processors, back to head-worn displays. Furthermore, when AR eyewear becomes commonplace, so will multi-user AR collaboration, and that means handling intricate interactions between users, both co-located and remote.

Wireless wearables for virtual and augmented reality

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DIAL: DIagrammatic Animation Language Tutorial and Reference Manual

We describe how an interdisciplinary collaboration has created a “living laboratory” in which researchers maintain a direct and ongoing l oop between innovation and production and study true adoption of technology in real world settings. The collaborators include the Department of Biomedical Informat ics and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, industrial partners developing commerci al health IT applications, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Columbia University Medical Center. In this paper we discuss our current projects, and mention some of the unique benefits and challenges of building a living laboratory for health information technology.

Designing for Adoption: A Living Laboratory for Health IT

L'invention concerne un procede permettant de gerer un espace de travail defini sur un ecran, lequel procede consiste a definir une premiere structure de donnees, composee des rectangles pleins presents dans ledit espace de travail, certains desdits rectangles au moins pouvant se chevaucher. Le procede consiste ensuite a definir egalement une seconde structure de donnees, composee des rectangles vides, plus grands, disponibles dans l'espace de travail de maniere a completer la representation de l'espace de travail. Le procede consiste, en outre, a effectuer une operation sur au moins l'un des rectangles pleins de l'espace de travail et a redefinir la premiere et la seconde structure de donnees en fonction de l'espace de travail obtenu une fois cette operation realisee. Parmi les operations possibles figurent l'addition d'un nouveau rectangle plein, le deplacement d'un rectangle plein existant et la suppression d'un rectangle plein existant de l'espace de travail. De facon generale, l'espace de travail est un dispositif d'affichage couple a un dispositif electronique tel qu'un ordinateur personnel, un assistant numerique personnel, un lecteur de livre electronique, et analogue.

Steven Feiner

Papers

Lets go out: Research in outdoor mixed and augmented reality

Wireless wearables for virtual and augmented reality

DIAL: DIagrammatic Animation Language Tutorial and Reference Manual

Designing for Adoption: A Living Laboratory for Health IT

Systeme et procede de gestion dynamique d'un espace d'affichage