• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.48-56
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• 2017

Augmented reality/virtual reality(AR/VR) technology has a very long research history, beginning in the 1860s. As of the CES of 2016, the expectations regarding the commercialization of AR/VR technology have increased, incurring the interest of many people. AR/VR technologies will be established as a part of our everyday life, such as smartphones, by combining the breakthrough developments of displays, semiconductors, sensors, and various content development technologies. However, until recently, the results of innovative technological developments and market growth had not been reported. In this article, we analyze these trends by focusing on display technologies, and discuss future directions.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.155-191
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• 2020

The aim of this study was to examine the trends (e.g., the distribution of the studies by year, country, research methods, and participants' education level) and fundamental findings [e.g., interaction in Virtual Reality (VR) environments, educational content through VR and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, learning environment in AR, etc.] regarding immersive learning technologies such as VR and AR in English Language Teaching (ELT) between 2010 and 2019. Employing a systematic review research methodology, data was gathered from 59 academic articles published in the following databases: EBSCOhost, ERIC, Web of Science, and Taylor & Francis. The studies were analyzed using a content analysis approach, and findings demonstrated that immersive learning technologies in ELT came to prominence in 2017. Mixed methods research was the most widely employed research method. The most studied language skill was vocabulary for AR and speaking for VR. The results also revealed advantages and challenges with regards to the use of immersive learning technologies in ELT. Further analysis illustrated the findings related to characteristics of immersive learning technologies in ELT. Based on this review, research and design implications for researchers and practitioners are presented.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2022

With the mark of the fourth industrial revolution, the smart factory is evolving into a new future manufacturing plant. As a human-machine-interactive tool, augmented reality (AR) helps workers acquire the proficiency needed in smart factories. The valuable data displayed on the AR device must be delivered intuitively to users. Current AR applications used in smart factories lack user movement calibration, and visual fiducial markers for position correction are detected only nearby. This paper demonstrates a marker-based object detection using perspective projection to adjust augmented content while maintaining the user's original perspective with displacement. A new angle, location, and scaling values for the AR content can be calculated by comparing equivalent marker positions in two images. Two experiments were conducted to verify the implementation of the algorithm and its practicality in the smart factory. The markers were well-detected in both experiments, and the applicability in smart factories was verified by presenting appropriate displacement values for AR contents according to various movements.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.829-834
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• 2008

Augmented reality makes the relationship between real world and virtual world. The basic goal of an AR system is to enhance the user's perception of and interaction with the real world through supplementing the real world with 3D virtual objects that appear to coexist in the same space as the real world. ARToolkit is widely used toolkit to develop any AR application. However, to do so, a lot of researcher faced many challenges and limitations. In this paper we comprehensively review some selected challenging issues using ARToolkit to develop AR system. And then, we implement a real application for augmented text book with sounds and 3D virtual objects which we called here AR Traffic Book concerning these challenging issues by ARToolkit. In this paper our foremost approaches on the most common challenging issues such as virtual object rendering, camera calibration and tracking.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.269-280
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• 2011

Mobile Augmented Reality (mobile AR), as one of the most prospective mobile applications, intends to provide richer experiences by annotating tags or virtual objects over the scene observed through camera embedded in a handheld device like smartphone or pad. In this paper, we analyzed the current status of the art of mobile AR and proposed a novel Points of Interest (POIs) data model based on ontology to provide context-aware information retrievals on lots of POIs data. Proposed ontology was expanded from the standard POIs data model of W3C POIs Working Group and established using OWL (Web Ontology Language) and Protege. We also proposed a context-aware mobile AR platform which can resolve three distinguished issues in current platforms : interoperability problem of POI tags, POIs data retrieval issue, and context-aware service issue.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1048-1057
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• 2013

In recent years, augmented reality (AR) technologies have been the subject of great interest among many communities. In education applications, old-fashioned materials (or textbooks) are still used, despite remarkable AR developments in the industrial area. We present an AR system for education. Our system consists of an authoring tool that can be used to create educational content, a viewer that plays that content, and an engine to manage the tool and viewer. In our system, a marker unit recognizes a marker printed on a plane or a cubic plane by adaptively adjusting the threshold to have an excellent recognition rate in diverse environments and acquires corresponding data of the marker. Based on the system, we test 142 elementary school students for increased educational benefits using our system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2383-2386
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• 2003

요즘 어린이 교재들은 예전에 비한다면 급속도의 발전을 이루고 있어서, 앞으로도 다양한 컨셉과 아이디어로 계속 발전될 경향이다. 하지만 현재까지의 보통 낱말카드나 그래픽들은 2D로 이루어져 있어서 현실감이 떨어지는 교육이 되는 경우가 많다. 그렇다고 현실감을 주기 위해 어린이들이 갖고 놀도록 커다란 3D 의 장난감들을 갖게 된다면 이들이 차지하는 공간은 너무나 많아진다. 사실 아이들이 있는 가정들을 보면 공간의 부족 때문에 갖고 있던 교재나 장난감들을 버리기도 하는 것이 요즘 현실이기 때문이다. 본 논문은 이런 문제점들을 보완하기 위해 AR(Augmented Reality)Toolkit[l]을 응용한 어린이 교재를 제안한다 공간절약형으로 정육면체 패턴을 만들어 공간절약도 되고, 이 패턴(pattern) 위에서 3 차원 영상도 보고 패턴을 교체해 가면서 다양한 재미도 느낄 수 있는 교재를 구현해 보고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.69-76
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• 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) technology has rapidly been applied to various application areas including e-learning and e-education. Focusing on the design and development of android tablet application, this study targeted to develop infant music education using AR technology. We used a tablet instead of personal computer because it is more easily accessible and more convenient. Our system allows infant users to play with teaching aids like blocks or puzzles to mimic musical play like game. The user sets the puzzle piece on the playground in front of the tablet and presses the play button. Then, the system extracts a region of interest among the images acquired by internal camera and separates the foreground image from the background image. The block recognition software analyzes, recognizes and shows the result using AR technology. In order to have reasonably working recognition ratio, we did experiments with more than 5,000 frames of actual playing scenarios. We found that the recognition rate can be secured up to 95%, when the threshold values are selected well using various condition parameters.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.27-33
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• 2015

Augmented reality (AR) adds on and displays synthetic information spatially registered to real world objects. As a particular and important type of information visualization technique, AR possesses unique advantages and limitations. In this paper, we put forth three requirements for an effective augmentation, namely, "naturalness," "visibility," and "persistence," and review notable augmentation techniques around these three perspectives. Based on the review and analysis, future directions for AR based information visualization techniques are proposed.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.51-61
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• 2017

The objective of the study is to examine the acceptance and usability of Augmented Reality (AR) visuals developed for industry analysis of Thai Banks and whether these visuals can outperform the table of numbers in representing financial accounting data. Convenient samples were used and the data were collected with self-assessed questionnaires from 109 users with minimum prior experiences with financial analyses. The results from descriptive statistics indicates that despite having over 80% of respondents with little prior experience in analyzing financial performance of banking industry, the majority of them were able to correctly make prediction (96.4%), identify trend (82.6%) and compare banks' performance (70.6%). Their attitudes and perception towards Bank-AR visuals were above average. Although the overall usability score is average (53%), the respondents rated the Bank-AR visuals to be highly useful and had high intention to use them in the future.