Multi-dimensional Interactive City Exploration through Mixed Reality

Author

Herbst, Iris ; Braun, Anne-Kathrin ; McCall, Rod ; Broll, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin

fYear

2008

fDate

8-12 March 2008

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

260

Abstract

In this paper we present a pervasive outdoor mixed reality edutainment game for exploring the history of a city in the spatial and the temporal dimension, which will closely couple the real environment with the virtual content. The game provides a new and unique user experience, which links rich interactive content to time and places. We introduce the development of such a game, including a universal mechanism to define and setup multi-modal user interfaces for game challenges.

Keywords

augmented reality; computer games; interactive systems; ubiquitous computing; user interfaces; augmented reality; multidimensional interactive city exploration; multimodal interface; multimodal user interface; pervasive gaming; pervasive outdoor mixed reality edutainment game; virtual content; Bluetooth; Cities and towns; Displays; Iris; Mice; Multimedia systems; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; User interfaces; Virtual reality; Augmented Reality (AR); H.5.1 [Multimedia Information Systems]: Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities - Audio input/output; H.5.2 [User Interfaces]: Input devices and strategies; I.3.1 [Hardware Architecture]: Input devices; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques - Interaction Techniques; K.8.0 [Personal Computing]: General - Games; Mixed Reality (MR); Multimodal Interfaces; Pervasive Gaming; Presence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Conference, 2008. VR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Reno, NE

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1971-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1972-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2008.4480790

Filename

4480790