Last month, Aslib Proceedings has published a journal article I co-authored with a colleague at City University with title ‘Mixed reality (MR) interfaces for mobile information systems’. The paper presented some of the results obtained from the LOCUS research project. The purpose of this paper was to explore how mixed reality interfaces can be used for the presentation of information on mobile devices. The motivation for this work is the emergence of mobile information systems where information is disseminated to mobile individuals via handheld devices. The LOCUS project is extending the functionality of the WebPark architecture to allow the presentation of spatially referenced information via these mixed reality interfaces on mobile devices.
In particular, the LOCUS system is built on top of the WebPark mobile client-server architecture which provides the basic functionality associated with LBS including the retrieval of information based upon spatial and semantic criteria, and the presentation of this information as a list or on a map (top images). However, the LOCUS system extends this LBS interface by adding a VR (bottom left image) and an AR interface (bottom right image). We strongly believe that the most suitable interface for mobile information systems is likely to be user and task dependent, however, mixed reality interfaces offer promise in allowing mobile users to make associations between spatially referenced information and the physical world.
The abstract of the paper can be found online at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=C6648C35B8ACA30C963A51EBCE6E16BE?contentType=Article&contentId=1626454
Also a draft version can be downloaded from here.
The abstract of the paper can be found online at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=C6648C35B8ACA30C963A51EBCE6E16BE?contentType=Article&contentId=1626454
Also a draft version can be downloaded from here.