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Overview of Augmented Reality System Organization
To appreciate the developments and advances in augmented reality, it is necessary to have a general understanding of what makes up an augmented...
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Augmented Reality: We’ll All Be Experts Now
Augmented reality uses a personal display, up close to the user, to show him or her information, text, drawings, 3D objects, generated locally or...
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Software Tools and Technologies
Several companies are offering tool kits to aid developers in creating applications that work well in an augmented reality environment. A few of the...
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Types of Augmented Reality Systems
One of the most important parts of augmented reality is the ability of the user to see his or her environment. However, the augmented reality device...
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Augmented Reality Devices and Suppliers
The augmented reality market has attracted interest since the early 1970s and that interest has never stopped. Slowed sometimes by technology...
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Technology Issues
In this section, some of the key technical issues in building an augmented reality device are discussed. The number of sensors, and the technology...
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Key Applications
The possibilities of augmented reality run the gamut from basic informational purposes to enterprise needs, fulfilling training and onsite job...
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Introduction
Augmented reality will do more than just give us directions, and visualizations of products. In time, Augmented Reality will integrate with body...
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Conclusions and Future Possibilities
Augmented reality will touch all parts of our lives, our society, and the subsequent rules we live by. As we adapt to the new capabilities and power...
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Historical Overview: Ghosts to Real AR to DARPA
Although seeming new as it penetrates the consumer market, augmented reality can trace its roots back to the Second World War (WWII) and conceptually...
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Design for All
A little while ago, a young colleague asked me: “Since you take an interest in these things, can you tell me what kitchen is best suited to a person...
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Humanistic Design
The designer is the last one to act in chain of decision-making, because he is the one who translates the ideas into practical works. Everyone...
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The Robot Inside Us
Robotics offers methods and technologies for prosthetics to progress, and to obtain wearable devices that can substitute the functions of organs or...
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Our Friend the Robot
Whenever I think of the future of robotics, what comes to mind is the image of a lady in her comfortable home in her unspecified city. She is quietly...
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On the Way to Robotics
I do not intend to describe the history of robotics and its literary origin, dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century, but I would like...
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Ergonomics in Italy
All over Europe (and also in other places) in the seventies, dangerous work was entrusted to foreign migrant workers (Gastarbeiter) who tended not to...
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The Evolution of Accessible Design
In complex products, regardless of the scale of their production (small runs or large series), ergonomic design research sets out to cater for the...
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Ask the Right Question (A Design System)
“Ask the right question” is an approach to the design process that draws a distinction between the moment when information is gathered (which takes...
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Looking for the Answer
If asking the right question is a part of the design process, looking for the answer is an art.
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Active Ageing
Most of us have known people whose capacities have undergone drastic change at some stage in their lives. Sometimes it is a traumatic experience, the...