Crack Inspection Support System for Concrete Structures Using Head Mounted Display in Mixed Reality Space

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyuki Yamaguchi ◽  
Takeshi Shibuya ◽  
Masashi Kanda ◽  
Akira Yasojima
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Concrete Structures ◽  
Head Mounted Display

ASSIST IN COOKING: ACTION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE SELF-TRAINING

2008 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 207-233
Author(s):  
SATORU MEGA ◽  
YOUNES FADIL ◽  
ARATA HORIE ◽  
KUNIAKI UEHARA
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Support System ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Flexible Learning ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Cooking Process ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Transition Models

Human-computer interaction systems have been developed in recent years. These systems use multimedia techniques to create Mixed-Reality environments where users can train themselves. Although most of these systems rely strongly on interactivity with the users, taking into account users' states, they still lack the possibility of considering users preferences when they help them. In this paper, we introduce an Action Support System for Interactive Self-Training (ASSIST) in cooking. ASSIST focuses on recognizing users' cooking actions as well as real objects related to these actions to be able to provide them with accurate and useful assistance. Before the recognition and instruction processes, it takes users' cooking preferences and suggests one or more recipes that are likely to satisfy their preferences by collaborative filtering. When the cooking process starts, ASSIST recognizes users' hands movement using a similarity measure algorithm called AMSS. When the recognized cooking action is correct, ASSIST instructs the user on the next cooking procedure through virtual objects. When a cooking action is incorrect, the cause of its failure is analyzed and ASSIST provides the user with support information according to the cause to improve the user's incorrect cooking action. Furthermore, we construct parallel transition models from cooking recipes for more flexible instructions. This enables users to perform necessary cooking actions in any order they want, allowing more flexible learning.

Visual Coherence in Mixed Reality: A Systematic Enquiry

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonny Collins ◽  
Holger Regenbrecht ◽  
Tobias Langlotz
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Virtual And Augmented Reality

Virtual and augmented reality, and other forms of mixed reality (MR), have become a focus of attention for companies and researchers. Before they can become successful in the market and in society, those MR systems must be able to deliver a convincing, novel experience for the users. By definition, the experience of mixed reality relies on the perceptually successful blending of reality and virtuality. Any MR system has to provide a sensory, in particular visually coherent, set of stimuli. Therefore, issues with visual coherence, that is, a discontinued experience of a MR environment, must be avoided. While it is very easy for a user to detect issues with visual coherence, it is very difficult to design and implement a system for coherence. This article presents a framework and exemplary implementation of a systematic enquiry into issues with visual coherence and possible solutions to address those issues. The focus is set on head-mounted display-based systems, notwithstanding its applicability to other types of MR systems. Our framework, together with a systematic discussion of tangible issues and solutions for visual coherence, aims at guiding developers of mixed reality systems for better and more effective user experiences.

scholarly journals Exploring the Use of Immersive Technology in Education to Bring Abstract Theoretical Concepts to Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Ekerin Oluseye Michael ◽  
Heidi Tan Yeen-Ju ◽  
Neo Tse Kian
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Virtual Technology ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Immersive Technology

Over the years educators have adopted a variety of technologies in a bid to improve student engagement, interest and understanding of abstract topics taught in the classroom. There has been an increasing interest in immersive technology such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). The ability of VR to bring ideas to life in three dimensional spaces in a way that is easy for students to understand the subject matter makes it one of the important tools available today for education. A key feature of VR is the ability to provide multi-sensory visuals and virtual interaction to students wearing a Head Mounted Display thus providing students better learning experience and connection to the subject matter. Virtual Reality has been used for training purposes in the health sector, military, workplace training, gamification and exploration of sites and countless others. With the potential benefits of virtual technology in visualizing abstract concepts in a realistic virtual world, this paper presents a plan to study the use of situated cognition theory as a learning framework to develop an immersive VR application that would be used to train and prepare students studying Telecommunications Engineering for the workplace. This paper presents a review of literature in the area of Virtual Reality in education, offers insight into the motivation behind this research and the planned methodology in carrying out the research.

scholarly journals A Method of Navigational Information Display Using Augmented Virtuality

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Rafał Gralak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Spatial Decision Support System ◽  
Spatial Decision Support ◽  
Information Display ◽  
Augmented Virtuality ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Ship Navigation

The preliminary research experiments described herein were aimed to choose an appropriate mixed reality technology for the construction of navigational information display method to be used onboard ships in restricted waters. The method assumes a possibly faithful representation of the environment and the actual navigational situation on a spatial decision support system (SDSS) interface during ship navigation and maneuvering in restricted waters. The paper also presents the architecture and process of building a SDSS, where the method of navigational information display using augmented virtuality was applied.

Mixed reality head-mounted display

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S.-T. Choy ◽  
Ka-Chun Lu ◽  
Wing-Ming Chow ◽  
Ka-Man Sit ◽  
Ka-Hing Lay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Head Mounted Display

Low Cost Mixed Reality System Using Projectors for Evaluation of Product Design (Shape and Function Structure)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Chinone ◽  
Hideki Aoyama ◽  
Tetsuo Oya
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Design Evaluation ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Cad Models ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
And Function ◽  
Cam Systems

Three-dimensional models (CAD models) are constructed in the design processes of products because they are effective for design evaluation processes using CAE systems and manufacturing processes using CAM systems. However, mock-ups or prototypes are still required in the evaluation processes of designability and operability of products because the evaluation of the operations of real products is essential. It is however time-consuming and costly to make prototypes or to develop trial products for evaluation. For this problem, considerable studies have been conducted on the use of mixed reality technology by overlaying an image of the design model onto a physical model using a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) to evaluate the designability and operability of a product. Such technology reduces the need for making physical mock-ups (prototypes and trial products), but HMDs have drawbacks such as causing motion sickness and physical weight, bulkiness of the display, and high costs. In this paper, a method using projectors is proposed to establish mixed reality technology which does not have the drawbacks of HMDs. A mixed reality system was constructed according to the proposed method, and applied for evaluating designability and operability of products without physical mock-ups. In the mixed reality space built by the system, the functions of a product can be held in the hand as if they were real products.

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