Highlighting Techniques for Real Entities in Augmented Reality

Sebastian Fuchs, Mario Sigel, Ralf Dörner

2016

Abstract

One fundamental task in Augmented Reality is to highlight specific real world entities or small areas in the user‘s view. For this purpose, a total of 9 novel highlighting techniques were designed and implemented. For comparison, they are complemented by two conventional techniques often used in practice. This paper presents the techniques and evaluates them based on a user study in which 23 participants were asked questions concerning the degree of attention as well as disturbances caused by the highlighting techniques. The user study revealed that particle systems are a successful tool to effectively draw attention to a highlighted entity without causing annoying distractions.

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Fuchs S., Sigel M. and Dörner R. (2016). Highlighting Techniques for Real Entities in Augmented Reality . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 259-270. DOI: 10.5220/0005674002570268


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp16,
author={Sebastian Fuchs and Mario Sigel and Ralf Dörner},
title={Highlighting Techniques for Real Entities in Augmented Reality},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={259-270},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005674002570268},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Highlighting Techniques for Real Entities in Augmented Reality
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Fuchs S.
AU - Sigel M.
AU - Dörner R.
PY - 2016
SP - 259
EP - 270
DO - 10.5220/0005674002570268