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Fiia: A Model-Based Approach to Engineering Collaborative Augmented Reality

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Augmented reality systems often involve collaboration among groups of people. While there are numerous toolkits that aid the development of such augmented reality groupware systems (e.g., ARToolkit and Groupkit), there remains an enormous gap between the specification of an AR groupware application and its implementation. In this chapter, we present Fiia, a toolkit which simplifies the development of collaborative AR applications. Developers specify the structure of their applications using the Fiia modeling language, which abstracts details of networking and provides high-level support for specifying adapters between the physical and virtual world. The Fiia.Net runtime system then maps this conceptual model to a runtime implementation. We illustrate Fiia via Raptor, an augmented reality application used to help small groups collaboratively prototype video games.

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This work benefitted from the generous support of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and NECTAR, the Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research.

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    Christopher Wolfe

  2. School of Computing, Queen’s University, K7L3N6, Kingston, Canada

    J. David Smith & T.C. Nicholas Graham

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, K7K7B4, Kingston, Canada

    W. Greg Phillips

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Wolfe, C., Smith, J.D., Phillips, W.G., Graham, T.N. (2010). Fiia: A Model-Based Approach to Engineering Collaborative Augmented Reality. In: Dubois, E., Gray , P., Nigay, L. (eds) The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-733-2_15

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