Proactive Robot Assistance: Affordance-Aware Augmented Reality User Interfaces

Abstract. The paper aims to introduce the ARESIBO project to a greater but targeted audience and outline its main scope and achievements. ARESIBO stands for “Augmented Reality Enriched Situation awareness for Border security”. In the recent years, border security has become one of the highest political priorities in EU and needs the support of every Member State. ARESIBO project is developed under HORIZON 2020 EC Research and Innovation program and it is the joint effort of 20 participant entities from 11 countries. Scientific excellence and technological innovation are top priorities as ARESIBO enhances the current state-of-the-art through technological breakthroughs in Mobile Augmented Reality and Wearables, Robust and Secure Telecommunications, Robots swarming technique and Planning of Context-Aware Autonomous Missions, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), in order to implement user-friendly tools for border and coast guards. The system aims to improve the cognitive capabilities and the perception of border guards through intuitive user interfaces that will help them acquire an improved situation awareness by filtering the huge amount of available information from multiple sources. Ultimately, it will help them respond faster and more effectively when a critical situation occurs.

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INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY IN AUGMENTED REALITY

Bulletin of the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University ◽

10.52081/bkaku.2021.v58.i3.080 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

pp. 137-142

Author(s):

A.O. Dauitbayeva ◽

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A.A. Myrzamuratova ◽

A.B. Bexeitova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Spatial Arrangement ◽

Linear Perspective ◽

Three Dimensional Objects ◽

Visualization Technology ◽

Image Volume ◽

Dimensional Object

This article is devoted to the issues of visualization and information processing, in particular, improving the visualization of three-dimensional objects using augmented reality and virtual reality technologies. The globalization of virtual reality has led to the introduction of a new term "augmented reality"into scientific circulation. If the current technologies of user interfaces are focused mainly on the interaction of a person and a computer, then augmented reality with the help of computer technologies offers improving the interface of a person and the real world around them. Computer graphics are perceived by the system in the synthesized image in connection with the reproduction of monocular observation conditions, increasing the image volume, spatial arrangement of objects in a linear perspective, obstructing one object to another, changing the nature of shadows and tones in the image field. The experience of observation is of great importance for the perception of volume and space, so that the user "completes" the volume structure of the observed representation. Thus, the visualization offered by augmented reality in a real environment familiar to the user contributes to a better perception of three-dimensional object.

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Multimodal 3D User Interfaces for Augmented Reality and Omni-Directional Video

10.4995/thesis/10251/53916 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

GUSTAVO ALBERTO ROVELO RUIZ

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

User Interfaces ◽

3D User Interfaces

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The Use of Augmented Reality in Geomatics

Proccedings of 10th International Conference "Environmental Engineering" ◽

10.3846/enviro.2017.162 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Michał Bednarczyk

Keyword(s):

User Interface ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Software Integration ◽

Computing Power ◽

Daily Work ◽

The Core ◽

All Solutions ◽

Continuous Progress ◽

User Friendly

User interfaces are in continuous progress. As the computing power of modern machines grows, they become more user-friendly and intuitive. Not all solutions are widely accepted, sometimes they become only a “curiosity”, while another ones achieve success. Lately, some user interface designers strive for such solutions, in which the user will have the impression of “staying” or “permeation” of the system with reality and therefore some kind of software integration with the environment. This is achieved by various methods utilizing interfaces controlled by voice or touch. Quite spectacular and very interesting are solutions that integrate image generated by a computer with a real view. This technology is called AR – Augmented Reality, and is the core of the author’s considerations about its application in contemporary surveying and GIS practice. In this article, are presented issues related to the possibilities that lie in the use of this technology in the daily work of geo-engineer.

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Surgeon Assistive Augmented Reality Model with the use of Endoscopic Camera for Line of Vision Calculation

Image Processing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-3994-2.ch034 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 658-674

Author(s):

Anastasia Daskalaki ◽

Kostas Giokas ◽

Dimitris Koutsouris

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

Situation Awareness ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Medical Data ◽

Graphical User Interfaces ◽

Ar Model ◽

Image Processing Techniques ◽

Processing Techniques ◽

Robotic Surgeries

In this paper, the authors describe a surgeon assistive Augmented Reality (AR) model for endoscopic procedures. They analyze the main parts of the model and the processes that need to be established such as, the registration of the patient, the segmentation of medical data, their 3D reconstruction, and the detection of endoscopic instruments and the camera. The authors present two graphical user interfaces, build to serve the needs of segmentation, navigation, and visualization of the final intra-operative scene. By using preoperative data of the patient (MRI-CT) and image processing techniques, the authors can provide a unique view of the surgical scene. The potentials and the advantages of endoscopic-robotic surgeries nowadays can be improved. Augmented surgery scenes with information about the patients underline structures, enables wider situation awareness, precision, and confidence.

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Augmented Reality Interfaces for Smart Objects in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8751-6.ch040 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 939-960

Author(s):

A. W. W. Yew ◽

S. K. Ong ◽

A. Y. C. Nee

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Ubiquitous Computing ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Computer Software ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Smart Objects ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

Computing Environments ◽

User Friendly ◽

Ubiquitous Computing Environments

It is the goal of ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) to hide computers from the users. Instead, everyday objects embedded with computer processing capability become smart objects that act as interfaces to computer software. A challenge with this new paradigm of computing is to create natural and obvious ways for people to interact with objects and receive output from the computer software that these objects serve as interfaces to. In this chapter, a solution is proposed whereby virtual user interfaces are added to smart objects. These virtual interfaces are viewed in augmented reality through personal viewing devices which also allow people to interact directly with them. The implementation of UbiComp environments and personal viewing devices is described in order to illustrate the use of current technology in creating user-friendly UbiComp environments.

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