1. Toward Mixed Reality Hybrid Objects with IoT Avatar Agents
- Author
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Jie Guan, Yiyi Shao, Nadine Lessio, and Alexis Morris
- Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences ,020203 distributed computing ,Ubiquitous computing ,Ambient intelligence ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction ,02 engineering and technology ,Object (computer science) ,computer.software_genre ,Mixed reality ,Field (computer science) ,Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) ,Intelligent agent ,Human–computer interaction ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Augmented reality ,Internet of Things ,business ,computer ,Avatar - Abstract
The internet-of-things (IoT) refers to the growing field of interconnected pervasive computing devices and the networking that supports smart, embedded applications. The IoT has multiple human-computer interaction challenges due to its many formats and interlinked components, and central to these is the need to provide sensory information and situational context pertaining to users in a more human-friendly, easily understandable format. This work addresses this by applying mixed reality toward expressing the underlying behaviors and states internal to IoT devices and IoT-enabled objects. It extends the authors’ previous research on IoT Avatars (mixed reality character representations of physical IoT devices), presenting a new head-mounted display framework and interconnection architecture. This contributes i) an exploration of mixed reality for smart spaces, ii) an approach toward expressive avatar behaviors using fuzzy inference, and iii) an early functional prototype of a hybrid physical and mixed reality IoT-enabled object. This approach is a step toward new information presentation, interaction, and engagement capabilities for smart devices and environments.
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- 2023