Papers by Mark Billinghurst
proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2001), 2001
Starting from the days of the Musical Telegraph, the first electronic instrument, the majority of... more Starting from the days of the Musical Telegraph, the first electronic instrument, the majority of synthesizers today are still equipped with keyboards, often using the traditional layout of acoustic pianos. The question that many researchers attempt to answer is that of improvement. In this paper we present an Augmented Groove, a novel musical instrument that attempts to depart from traditional approaches to musical performance, ie use keyboards, dials or simulated traditional musical controllers. It allows novices to play ...
Proceedings of the …, Jan 1, 2008
… Journal of Human-Computer …, Jan 1, 2008
Auditory Display, Jan 1, 2010
Starting from the days of the Musical Telegraph, the first electronic instrument, the majority of... more Starting from the days of the Musical Telegraph, the first electronic instrument, the majority of synthesizers today are still equipped with keyboards, often using the traditional layout of acoustic pianos. The question that many re-searchers attempt to answer is that of improvement. In this paper we present an Augmented Groove, a novel musical instrument that attempts to depart from traditional approaches to musical performance, i.e. use keyboards, dials or simulated traditional musical controllers. It allows novices to play electronic musical compositions, interactively remixing and modulating their elements, by manipulating simple physical objects.
Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Austalasia and South East Asia, 2004
Recent advances in computer graphics and interactive techniques have increased the visual quality... more Recent advances in computer graphics and interactive techniques have increased the visual quality and flexibility of Augmented Reality (AR) applications. This, in turn has increased the viability of applying AR to educational exhibits for use in Science Centres, Museums, Libraries and other education centres. This article outlines a selection of five projects developed at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) that have explored different techniques for applying AR to educational exhibits.
iwar, Jan 1, 1999
CSCW; in this setting computers can provide the same type of collaborative information that peopl... more CSCW; in this setting computers can provide the same type of collaborative information that people have in face-to-face interactions, such as communication by object manipulation, voice and gesture [1]. Work on the DIVE project [2], GreenSpace [3] and other fully immersive multi-participant virtual environments has shown that collaborative work is indeed intuitive in such surroundings. However most current multi-user VR systems are fully immersive, separating the user from the real world and their traditional tools.
Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea
Proceedings of the …, Jan 1, 1999
… Reality, 2000.(ISAR …, Jan 1, 2000
table-top Augmented Reality (AR) interface. In this setting there is a need for very accurate tra... more table-top Augmented Reality (AR) interface. In this setting there is a need for very accurate tracking and registration techniques and an intuitive and useful interface. This is especially true in AR interfaces for supporting face to face collaboration where users need to be able to easily cooperate with each other. We describe an accurate vision-based tracking method for table-top AR environments and tangible user interface (TUI) techniques based on this method that allow users to manipulate virtual objects in a natural and intuitive manner. Our approach is robust, allowing users to cover some of the tracking markers while still returning camera viewpoint information, overcoming one of the limitations of traditional computer vision based systems. After describing this technique we describe it's use in a prototype AR applications.
Proceedings of the 9th …, Jan 1, 1996
The Go-Go immersive interaction technique uses the metaphor of interactively growing the user's a... more The Go-Go immersive interaction technique uses the metaphor of interactively growing the user's arm and non-linear mapping for reaching and manipulating distant objects. Unlike others, our technique allows for seamless direct manipulation of both nearby objects and those at a distance.
Computer Graphics and …, Jan 1, 2001
Computer, Jan 1, 2002
The new generation of wearables may look very much like eyeglasses or even an ordinary jacket. Bu... more The new generation of wearables may look very much like eyeglasses or even an ordinary jacket. But with this new convenience comes a host of challenges in redefining the bond between computer and user.
… First International Symposium on Mixed Reality, Jan 1, 1999
Virtual Reality (VR) appears a natural medium for computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). H... more Virtual Reality (VR) appears a natural medium for computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). However immersive Virtual Reality separates the user from the real world and their traditional tools. An alternative approach is through Mixed Reality (MR), the overlaying of virtual objects on the real world. This allows users to see each other and the real world at the same time as the virtual images, facilitating a high bandwidth of communication between users and intuitive manipulation of the virtual information. We review MR techniques for developing CSCW interfaces and describe lessons learned from developing a variety of collaborative Mixed Reality interfaces. Our recent work involves the use of computer vision techniques for accurate MR registration. We describe this and identify areas for future research.
Virtual Reality Annual …, Jan 1, 1998
Two dimensional windows based interfaces may not be appropriate for wearable computers. In this p... more Two dimensional windows based interfaces may not be appropriate for wearable computers. In this paper we draw on established virtual reality techniques to design and evaluate several alternate methods for information presentation in a wearable environment. We find simple body-spatialised displays provide benefits over traditional head-stabilised displays. Users found the body-stabilised displays easier to use, more enjoyable and more intuitive, and were able to perform significantly better on a search task. Spatial audio and visual cues further enhanced performance.
The MagicBook: a transitional AR interface
Computers & Graphics, Jan 1, 2001
The MagicBook is a Mixed Reality interface that uses a real book to seamlessly transport users be... more The MagicBook is a Mixed Reality interface that uses a real book to seamlessly transport users between Reality and Virtuality. A vision-based tracking method is used to overlay virtual models on real book pages, creating an Augmented Reality (AR) scene. When users see an AR scene they are interested in they can fly inside it and experience it as an immersive Virtual Reality (VR). The interface also supports multi-scale collaboration, allowing multiple users to experience the same virtual environment either from an egocentric or an exocentric perspective. In this paper we describe the MagicBook prototype, potential applications and user feedback.
Communications of the ACM, Jan 1, 2002
Science fiction has foreshadowed many of the great technical advances in communication. In Kubric... more Science fiction has foreshadowed many of the great technical advances in communication. In Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Floyd calls home using a videophone, one of the first film appearances of videoconferencing. Little more than a decade later, in Star Wars, collaboration is accomplished using live-sized virtual images superimposed over the real world. Twenty years later, desktop videoconferencing is freely available, while the virtual holo-phone is still far off fiction.
Proceedings of the …, Jan 1, 1997
Developing virtual reality (VR) applications which enable actual work over a period of time requi... more Developing virtual reality (VR) applications which enable actual work over a period of time requires optimization of the most basic interactions, such as object manipulation, so that the immersed participant can concentrate on higher-level tasks rather than on lowlevel motor activities. This paper presents a framework and experimental testbed for studies of VR object manipulation techniques. The framework provides a systematic task analysis of immersive manipulation and suggests a user-specific non-Euclidean system for the measurement of VR spatial relationships. The Virtual Reality Manipulation Assessment Testbed (VRMAT) is a practical implementation of the framework and is a flexible tool allowing in-depth experimental studies of immersive manipulation. Pilot studies have been conducted to evaluate this framework and testbed and to establish a baseline for further development.
Research Directions in Wearable Computing
University of Washington, Jan 1, 1998
... Research Directions in Wearable Computing Mark Billinghurst Human Interface Technology Labora... more ... Research Directions in Wearable Computing Mark Billinghurst Human Interface Technology Laboratory University of Washington Seattle ... Shared Space Website + Software ■ www.hitl.washington.edu/research/shared_space/ ● Mark Billinghurst ■ [email protected]. ...
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ …, Jan 1, 2005
Mobile phones are an ideal platform for augmented reality. In this paper we describe how they can... more Mobile phones are an ideal platform for augmented reality. In this paper we describe how they can also be used to support face to face collaborative AR gaming. We have created a custom port of the ARToolKit library to the Symbian mobile phone operating system and then developed a sample collaborative AR game based on this. We describe the game in detail and user feedback from people who have played the game. We also provide general design guidelines that could be useful for others who are developing mobile phone collaborative AR applications.
Personal and Ubiquitous …, Jan 1, 2002
This paper presents a novel computer entertainment system which recaptures human touch and physic... more This paper presents a novel computer entertainment system which recaptures human touch and physical interaction with the real-world environment as essential elements of the game play, whilst also maintaining the exciting fantasy features of traditional computer entertainment. Our system called 'Touch-Space' is an embodied (ubiquitous, tangible, and social) computing based Mixed Reality (MR) game space which regains the physical and social aspects of traditional game play. In this novel game space, the real-world environment is an essential and intrinsic game element, and the human's physical context influences the game play. It also provides the full spectrum of game interaction experience ranging from the real physical environment (human to human and human to physical world interaction), to augmented reality, to the virtual environment. It allows tangible interactions between players and virtual objects, and collaborations between players in different levels of reality. Thus, the system re-invigorates computer entertainment systems with social human-to-human and human-to-physical touch interactions.
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