SpringerLink
Log in

Data Representation with No-Code Augmented Reality Authoring Tools

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication IV

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Design and Innovation ((SSDI,volume 33))

  • 294 Accesses

Abstract

This study is framed within information design and focuses on data representation using augmented reality (AR) and its appropriation by designers. The need to investigate no-code AR authoring tools was motivated by the conclusions drawn during the development of “Floating Companies” AR prototype, which highlight the limited access of designers without programming skills to this technology. We intend to identify the limitations of no-code tools regarding development platforms, such as Unity, and represent data with no-code tools. The methodology used entails three phases—the collection and characterization of no-code AR tools; the review of its limitations regarding the development milestones in FLOC; and the proposal of data representation based on no-code tools. The AR tools landscape offers several free platforms which do not require programming skills. It was found that the analyzed tools do not support algorithmic data representation, which forces any representation to be designed manually in a customized way, presenting limitations regarding the amount of data, but also opportunities. The type of project that no-code platforms support falls within the concept of communicative visualization—a type of visualization that does not intend to deeply analyze the data, but rather to communicate and engage public.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Chapter
EUR 29.95
Price includes VAT (France)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
EUR 106.99
Price includes VAT (France)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
EUR 137.14
Price includes VAT (France)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free ship** worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Marques AB, Branco V, Costa R, Costa N (2022) Data Visualization in Hybrid Space—Constraints and Opportunities for Design. In: Martins N, Brandão D (eds) Advances in Design and Digital Communication III. DIGICOM 2022. Springer Series in Design and Innovation. Springer, Cham, pp 3–15

    Google Scholar 

  2. Branco V, Costa R, Costa N, et al (2018) designobs.pt. https://designobs.pt/. Accessed 21 Mar 2022

  3. Schmalstieg D, Höllerer T (2016) Authoring. Augmented Reality: Principles and Practice. Addison Wesley, Crawfordsville, Indiana, pp 471–488

    Google Scholar 

  4. Leiva G, Nguyen C, Kazi RH, Asente P (2020) Pronto: Rapid Augmented Reality Video Prototy** Using Sketches and Enaction. In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp 1–13

    Google Scholar 

  5. Dengel A, Iqbal MZ, Grafe S, Mangina E (2022) A Review on Augmented Reality Authoring Toolkits for Education. Front Virtual Real 3:https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.798032

  6. Gasques D, Johnson JG, Sharkey T, Weibel N (2019). What You Sketch Is What You Get: Quick and Easy Augmented Reality Prototy** with PintAR. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312847

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. MacIntyre B, Gandy M, Dow S, Bolter JD (2005) DART: a toolkit for rapid design exploration of augmented reality experiences. ACM Trans Graph 24:932–932. https://doi.org/10.1145/1073204.1073288

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Verganti R, Vendraminelli L, Iansiti M (2020) Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. J Prod Innov Manag 37:212–227. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12523

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Costa N, Branco V, Costa R, et al (2021) Design Companies in Portugal (detailed view, 2018, SABI)

    Google Scholar 

  10. “mbs278” (2017) Beginning Data Visualization in Unity: Scatterplot Creation – Methodology blog. http://sites.psu.edu/bdssblog/2017/04/06/basic-data-visualization-in-unity-scatterplot-creation/. Accessed 27 Mar 2023

  11. Iliinsky N, Steele J (2011) Designing Data Visualization. O’Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, USA

    Google Scholar 

  12. Masud L, Valsecchi F, Ciuccarelli P, et al (2010) From Data to Knowledge – Visualizations as Transformation Processes within the Data-Information-Knowledge Continuum. In: 2010 14th International Conference Information Visualisation. IEEE, pp 445–449

    Google Scholar 

  13. Segel E, Heer J (2010) Narrative visualization: Telling stories with data. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph 16:1139–1148. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.179

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Marques AB, Branco V, Costa R (2022) Narrative Visualization with Augmented Reality. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 6:105. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6120105

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Ikonen P, Uskali T (2021) Augmented reality as news. In: Uskali T, Gynnild A, Jones S, Sirkkunen E (eds) Immersive Journalism as Storytelling. Routledge, Oxon, pp 147–160

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  16. New York Times (2022) Inflation Shrinking Ray. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/ 2022/04/20/business/inflation-shrink-ray.html?shared=1. Accessed 27 Sep 2022

  17. New York Times (2022) EV Battery Breakdown. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/ 2022/08/19/business/electric-vehicle-battery-made.html. Accessed 27 Sep 2022

  18. Deutsche Welle (2020) Water footprint: Augmented Reality shows water cost of beef. https://www.dw.com/en/water-footprint-augmented-reality-shows-watercost- of-beef/a-52218248. Accessed 29 Sep 2022

  19. Cappannari L, Vitillo A (2022) XR and Metaverse Software Platforms. In: Roadmap** Extended Reality. Wiley, pp 135–156

    Google Scholar 

  20. Li J, W. Tigwell G, Shinohara K (2021) Accessibility of High-Fidelity Prototy** Tools. In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp 1–17

    Google Scholar 

  21. Billinghurst M, Nebeling M (2022) Rapid prototy** of XR experiences. ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Courses. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp 1–124

    Google Scholar 

  22. Lee GA, Kim GJ, Billinghurst M (2005) What you experience is what you get (WYXIWYG). Commun ACM 48:76–81. https://doi.org/10.1145/1070838.1070840

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Billinghurst M, Clark A, Lee G (2015) A Survey of Augmented Reality. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction 8:73–272. https://doi.org/10.1561/1100000049

  24. Freitas G, Pinho MS, Silveira MS, Maurer F (2020) A Systematic Review of Rapid Prototy** Tools for Augmented Reality. In: 2020 22nd Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR). IEEE, pp 199–209

    Google Scholar 

  25. Seichter H, Looser J, Billinghurst M (2008) ComposAR: An intuitive tool for authoring AR applications. In: 2008 7th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE, pp 177–178

    Google Scholar 

  26. Gandy M, MacIntyre B (2014) Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit, Ten Years Later: Implications for New Media Authoring Tools. In: Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp 627–636

    Google Scholar 

  27. Marques AB, Branco V, Costa R (2021) Minard Revisited – Exploring Augmented Reality in Information Design. Springer, Cham, pp 79–89

    Google Scholar 

  28. Marques AB (2023). No-Code Augmented Reality Platforms. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7640671

    Article  Google Scholar 

  29. Stansfield C, Dickson K, Bangpan M (2016) Exploring issues in the conduct of website searching and other online sources for systematic reviews: how can we be systematic? Syst Rev 5:191. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0371-9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  30. Ivanov A, Danyluk K, Jacob C, Willett W (2019) A Walk Among the Data. IEEE Comput Graph Appl 39:19–28. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This work is financed by national funds from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology), I.P., under the PhD grant «SFRH/BD/144937/2019». This article is a result of the project Design Obs. Para um Observatório de Design em Portugal: Modelos, Instrumentos, Representação e Estratégias, (Towards a design Observatory in Portugal: models, instruments representation and strategies) supported by Lisbon Regional Operational Programme (LISBOA 2020) and the Competitiveness and Internationalisation Operational Programme (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032445), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Communication and Art, Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+], University of Aveiro, University Campus of Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Beatriz Marques, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa & Nina Costa

Authors
  1. Ana Beatriz Marques
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Vasco Branco
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Rui Costa
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Nina Costa
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ana Beatriz Marques .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Research Institute for Design Media and Culture, School of Design, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave Barcelos, Barcelos, Portugal

    Nuno Martins

  2. Communication and Society Research Centre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Daniel Brandão

  3. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China

    Adérito Fernandes-Marcos

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Marques, A.B., Branco, V., Costa, R., Costa, N. (2024). Data Representation with No-Code Augmented Reality Authoring Tools. In: Martins, N., Brandão, D., Fernandes-Marcos, A. (eds) Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication IV. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41770-2_19

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41770-2_19

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-031-41769-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-031-41770-2

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation