Advances in Manufacturing ›› 2020, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (2): 133-143.doi: 10.1007/s40436-020-00295-1

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3D bare-hand interactions enabling ubiquitous interactions with smart objects

S. K. Ong, X. Wang, A. Y. C. Nee   

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 收稿日期:2019-03-22 修回日期:2019-11-14 出版日期:2020-06-25 发布日期:2020-06-08
  • 通讯作者: S. K. Ong E-mail:mpeongsk@nus.edu.sg
  • 基金资助:
    This research was supported by the Singapore A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research Public Sector Research Funding Programme (Grant No. 1521200081).

3D bare-hand interactions enabling ubiquitous interactions with smart objects

S. K. Ong, X. Wang, A. Y. C. Nee   

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Received:2019-03-22 Revised:2019-11-14 Online:2020-06-25 Published:2020-06-08
  • Contact: S. K. Ong E-mail:mpeongsk@nus.edu.sg
  • Supported by:
    This research was supported by the Singapore A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research Public Sector Research Funding Programme (Grant No. 1521200081).

摘要: Ubiquitous augmented reality (UAR) implementation can benefit smart shop floor operations significantly. UAR from a user's first-person view can support and provide the user with suitable and comprehensive information without him/her being distracted from ongoing tasks. A natural hand-based interaction interface, namely, a mobile bare-hand interface (MBHI), is proposed to assist a user in exploring and navigating a large amount of information for a task in the user's first-person view. The integration of a smart shop floor and UAR-based MBHI is particularly challenging. A real shop floor environment is composed of challenging conditions for the implementation of UAR, e.g., messy backgrounds and significant changes in illumination conditions. Meanwhile, the MBHI is required to provide precise and quick responses to minimize the difficulty of a user's task. In this study, a wearable UAR system integrated with an MBHI is proposed to augment the shop floor environment with smart information. A case study is implemented to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed UAR and MBHI system.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-020-00295-1

关键词: Augmented reality (AR), Mobile bare-hand interaction (MBHI), Smart objects (SOs), Manufacturing shop-floor

Abstract: Ubiquitous augmented reality (UAR) implementation can benefit smart shop floor operations significantly. UAR from a user's first-person view can support and provide the user with suitable and comprehensive information without him/her being distracted from ongoing tasks. A natural hand-based interaction interface, namely, a mobile bare-hand interface (MBHI), is proposed to assist a user in exploring and navigating a large amount of information for a task in the user's first-person view. The integration of a smart shop floor and UAR-based MBHI is particularly challenging. A real shop floor environment is composed of challenging conditions for the implementation of UAR, e.g., messy backgrounds and significant changes in illumination conditions. Meanwhile, the MBHI is required to provide precise and quick responses to minimize the difficulty of a user's task. In this study, a wearable UAR system integrated with an MBHI is proposed to augment the shop floor environment with smart information. A case study is implemented to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed UAR and MBHI system.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-020-00295-1

Key words: Augmented reality (AR), Mobile bare-hand interaction (MBHI), Smart objects (SOs), Manufacturing shop-floor