CAR - Car Augmented Reality

Problem Statement

The goal of CAR is to create a collaboration platform for computer scientists (UI programmers) and non-technicans (human factors, psychologists etc.). The platform allows collaborative design of visualizations and interaction metaphors to be used in the next-generation cars with Head-Up Displays. We focus on two scenarios: parking assistance and a tourist guide.
On the technical level we try to incoperate techniques like: layout of information on multiple displays, active user interfaces based on user modelling with eyetracking and an improved User Interface Controller with a rapid prototyping gui. Additionally a dynamically configurable set of filters (each having an appropriate gui for tuning parameters) is provided, which can be easily instantiated and deployed with DIVE.

Movies

1st demo - newly cut and in quicktime format (please contact us for higher quality video): car-lq.mov (10 Mb)
The final CAR Movie in mp4-Format. (please contact us for higher quality video): Car-Final-Movie (~76MB). Unfortunately there are no audio comments in there, yet. But you can find an explanation of the movie here.

Paper

V. Novak, C. Sandor, G. Klinker
An AR Workbench for Experimenting with Attentive User Interfaces
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2-4, 2004 (bib)

We present a workbench to build, evaluate and iteratively develop user interfa ces using augmented reality, eye tracking, and visual programming. To test our s ystem, we have developed an Attentive User Interface (AUI) for automotive environments, which coordinates its activities based on the context and visual attention of the user. Development of AUI requires interdisciplinary teams like psychologists, human-f actor engineers, designers and computer scientists to work together. The main problem of interdisciplinary comm unication is a lack of common language and different notion of the system. We ha ve developed a workbench, which facilitates the communication between the team m embers and enhances the comprehension of the system by visualizing users' attent ion and system reactions.

2004/11/03

Participants

Staff

Advisors: Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D.; Dipl.-Inf. Christian Sandor

Students

DA: Otmar Hilliges, Vinko Novak, Fabian Sturm^?
SEP: Markus Geipel, Maxi Schwinger^?, Korbinian Schwinger, Peter Hallama^?, Nikolas Doerfler

How to start the CAR Demo in the lab

ApplicationCar

Discussion Infrastructure

Internal Wiki Web^?
Lotus Notes BBoard

	V. Novak, C. Sandor, G. Klinker An AR Workbench for Experimenting with Attentive User Interfaces International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2-4, 2004 (bib)
	We present a workbench to build, evaluate and iteratively develop user interfa ces using augmented reality, eye tracking, and visual programming. To test our s ystem, we have developed an Attentive User Interface (AUI) for automotive environments, which coordinates its activities based on the context and visual attention of the user. Development of AUI requires interdisciplinary teams like psychologists, human-f actor engineers, designers and computer scientists to work together. The main problem of interdisciplinary comm unication is a lack of common language and different notion of the system. We ha ve developed a workbench, which facilitates the communication between the team m embers and enhances the comprehension of the system by visualizing users' attent ion and system reactions.
	2004/11/03