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Handheld AR for Collaborative Edutainment

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Handheld Augmented Reality (AR) is expected to provide ergonomic, intuitive user interfaces for untrained users. Yet no comparative study has evaluated these assumptions against more traditional user interfaces for an education task. In this paper we compare the suitability of a handheld AR arts-history learning game against more traditional variants. We present results from a user study that demonstrate not only the effectiveness of AR for untrained users but also its fun-factor and suitability in environments such as public museums. Based on these results we provide design guidelines that can inform the design of future collaborative handheld AR applications.

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  1. Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, Graz, 8010, Austria

    Daniel Wagner & Dieter Schmalstieg

  2. HIT Lab New Zealand, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8004, New Zealand

    Mark Billinghurst

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. State Key Lab of CAD and CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian Cheok

  3. Upper Austria University of Applied Science and Digital Media, Hagenberg, Austria

    Michael Haller

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Rynson W. H. Lau

  5. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku-ku, 223-8522, Yokohama, Japan

    Hideo Saito

  6. College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 310032, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Ronghua Liang

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Wagner, D., Schmalstieg, D., Billinghurst, M. (2006). Handheld AR for Collaborative Edutainment. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A., Haller, M., Lau, R.W.H., Saito, H., Liang, R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence. ICAT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941354_10

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