Design and experimental validation of an augmented reality system with wireless integration for context aware enhanced show experience in auditoriums
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2021Autor
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Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Artículo / Artikulua
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Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Identificador del proyecto
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/TEC2016-75067-C4-1-R AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RED2018-102668-T AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-104958RB-C42/ES/
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-095499-B-C31/ES/
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10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3048203
Resumen
The development of multiple cultural and social related activities, such as shows related with the performing arts, conferences or presentations rely on facilities such as auditoriums, theatres and conference sites, which are progressively including multiple technological features in order to enhance user experience. There are still however situations in which user experience is limited owing to ...
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The development of multiple cultural and social related activities, such as shows related with the performing arts, conferences or presentations rely on facilities such as auditoriums, theatres and conference sites, which are progressively including multiple technological features in order to enhance user experience. There are still however situations in which user experience is limited owing to lack of environment adaption, such as people with disabilities. In this sense, the adoption of Context Aware paradigms within auditoriums can provide adequate functionalities in order to comply with specific needs. This work is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility in enhancing user experience (e.g., improving the autonomy of disabled people) within auditorium and theatre environments, by means of an Augmented Reality (AR) device (HoloLens smart glasses) with wireless system integration. To carry out the demonstration, different elements to build AR applications are described and tested. First, an intensive measurement campaign was performed in a real auditorium in the city of Pamplona (Baluarte Congress Center) in order to evaluate the feasibility of using Wi-Fi enabled AR devices in a complex wireless propagation scenario. The results show that these environments exhibit high levels of interference, owing to the co-existence and non-coordinated operation of multiple wireless communication systems, such as on site and temporary Wi-Fi access points, wireless microphones or communications systems used by performers, staff and users. Deterministic wireless channel estimation based in volumetric 3D Ray Launching have been obtained for the complete scenario volume, in order to assess quality of service metrics. For illustration purposes, a user-friendly application to help hearing impaired people was developed and its main features were tested in the auditorium. Such an application provides users with a 3D virtual space to visualize useful multimedia content like subtitles or additional information about the show, as well as an integrated call button. © 2013 IEEE. [--]
Materias
3D ray launching,
Auditorium,
Augmented reality,
Enhanced show experience,
HoloLens,
Impaired persons,
Wireless channel
Editor
IEEE
Publicado en
IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 5466-5484, 2021
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute of Smart Cities - ISC /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoa eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritza Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported in part by the Article Processing Charges (APC) from the Xunta de Galicia under Grant ED431G 2019/01; in part by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of Spain under Grant TEC2016-75067-C4-1-R, Grant RED2018-102668-T, and Grant PID2019-104958RB-C42; in part by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union (EU) [Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), UE]; and in part by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (MCIU/AEI/FEDER,UE) under Project RTI2018-095499-B-C31.