Research project EXAR at the ISMAR 2011

The research team of Prof. André Hinkenjann has presented the AR research project EXAR at the ISMAR 2011 Conference in Basel (Switzerland) and has met with lively interest for their demo.

In this ZIM-Project that is being funded by the BMWI (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology) of the BRSU common research focus on Visual Computing, the methods of Augmented Reality are used for the observation of magnetic field lines, thereby creating a link between the real world and its physical description.

The ISMAR is the premier international conference on research, technology and application in Mixed and Augmented Reality.

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces which are beginning to have significant impact on industry and society. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences.  Since 1998, ISMAR and its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the premier forums in this vital field.

EXAR in the Postersession on October 28, 2011:

Augmenting Magnetic Field Lines for School Experiments
Florian Mannuß, Jan Rübel, Clemens Wagner, Florian Bingel, André Hinkenjann

Live Demo of EXAR:

Augmenting Magnetic Field Lines for School Experiments

We present a system for interactive magnetic field simulation in an AR-setup. The aim of this work is to investigate how AR technology can help to develop a better understanding of the concept of fields and field lines and their relationship to the magnetic forces in typical school experiments. The haptic feedback is provided by real magnets that are optically tracked. In a stereo video see-through head-mounted display, the magnets are augmented with the dynamically computed field lines.

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