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Is Industrial Tomography Ready for Augmented Reality? A Need-Finding Study of How Augmented Reality Can Be Adopted by Industrial Tomography Experts

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Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (HCII 2023)

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Augmented Reality (AR) has grown into a well-established technique with a compelling potential for interactive visualization. In spite of its clear potential, this novel tool has not yet been widely embraced as an industrial solution. In this paper, we address AR for a specific domain: industrial tomography. Within this domain, we conducted a need-finding study featuring 14 surveyed participants, each with sufficient years of experience. A systematic survey study was designed as the main body of our approach. Using this survey, we collected answers helping us to establish findings and formulate novel insights. The study as a whole consisted of a pilot and a formal study for better robustness. Our findings uncovered the current status of AR being used in industrial tomography, and showed that the potential of AR in this domain was positively rated by the participants. Based on our findings, we present key challenges and propose potential for interdisciplinary synergies between AR and industrial tomography.

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Acknowledgment

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764902. This work has been supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the PROM programme co-financed by the European Social Fund.

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  1. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Yuchong Zhang & Morten Fjeld

  2. Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Adam Nowak, Guruprasad Rao & Andrzej Romanowski

  3. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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Zhang, Y., Nowak, A., Rao, G., Romanowski, A., Fjeld, M. (2023). Is Industrial Tomography Ready for Augmented Reality? A Need-Finding Study of How Augmented Reality Can Be Adopted by Industrial Tomography Experts. In: Chen, J.Y.C., Fragomeni, G. (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35634-6_37

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