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Exploring Brick-Based Navigation and Composition in an Augmented Reality

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Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 1999)

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BUILD-IT is a planning tool based on computer vision technology, supporting complex planning and composition tasks. A group of people, seated around a table, interact with objects in a virtual scene using real bricks. A plan view of the scene is projected onto the table, where object manipulation takes place. A perspective view is projected on the wall. The views are set by virtual cameras, having spatial attributes like shift, rotation and zoom. However, planar interaction with bricks provides only position and rotation information. Object height control is equally constrained by planar interaction. The aim of this paper is to suggest methods and tools bridging the gap between planar interaction and three-dimensional control. To control camera attributes, active objects, with intelligent behaviour are introduced. To control object height, several real and virtual tools are suggested. Some of the solutions are based on metaphors, like window, sliding-ruler and floor.

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We thank Peter Troxler (peter@klapt.ch) for his photos (Figs. 1-3, 8) and Scott Stapleford (Philosophy, http://www.uwo.ca) for his editorial assistance. BUILD-IT is funded by The Swiss Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI), The Center for Integrated Production Systems (ZIP) at ETH Zurich, and The Institute for Design and Construction Methods (IKB) at ETH Zurich. Morten Fjeld thanks the Research Council of Norway (http://www.forskningsradet.no) for his Ph.D. fellowship. BUILD-IT is a registered trademark of TellWare (info@tellware.com).

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  1. Institute for Hygiene and Applied Physiology (IHA), Clausiusstr 25, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Morten Fjeld, Fred Voorhorst & Helmut Krueger

  2. Institute for Design and Construction Methods (IKB), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Tannenstr 3, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Martin Bichsel

  3. Institute for Work and Organisational Psychology (IfAP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Nelkenstr 11, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Kristina Lauche

  4. Center for Research on User-System Interaction (IPO), Technical University Eindhoven (TUE), Den Dolech 2, NL-5612, AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Matthias Rauterberg

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Fjeld, M., Voorhorst, F., Bichsel, M., Lauche, K., Rauterberg, M., Krueger, H. (1999). Exploring Brick-Based Navigation and Composition in an Augmented Reality. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_11

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