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Multi-interfaces approach to situated knowledge management for complex instruments: first step toward industrial deployment

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This paper presents an approach to managing knowledge specific to a particular location for complex instruments. The goal is to improve the knowledge communication between experts and end-users of scientific instruments. We propose a computational framework that integrates augmented reality and augmented virtuality as interface for manipulating knowledge. The augmented virtuality-based interface can be produced and distributed without extra costs. It allows knowledge dissemination at a larger scale. The prominent feature of our model is that the knowledge representation is independent from those interfaces. A preliminary version of our framework has been implemented and deployed in customers’ environments.

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  1. Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Loic Merckel & Toyoaki Nishida

  2. Department of Scientific Systems R&D, HORIBA Ltd, Kyoto, 601-8510, Japan

    Loic Merckel

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Merckel, L., Nishida, T. Multi-interfaces approach to situated knowledge management for complex instruments: first step toward industrial deployment. AI & Soc 25, 211–223 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-009-0247-9

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