UIST '19: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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LightAnchors: Appropriating Point Lights for Spatially-Anchored Augmented Reality Interfaces

Karan Ahuja, Sujeath Pareddy, Robert Xiao, Mayank Goel, Chris Harrison

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Abstract

Augmented reality requires precise and instant overlay of digital information onto everyday objects. We present our work on LightAnchors, a new method for displaying spatially-anchored data. We take advantage of pervasive point lights - such as LEDs and light bulbs - for both in-view anchoring and data transmission. These lights are blinked at high speed to encode data. We built a proof-of-concept ap-plication that runs on iOS without any hardware or software modifications. We also ran a study to characterize the performance of LightAnchors and built eleven example demos to highlight the potential of our approach.

Additional Resources

Learn more about LightAnchors, see our project website: https://www.lightanchors.org/home/

Citation

Ahuja, K., Pareddy, S., Xiao, R., Goel, M., & Harrison, C. (2019, October). Lightanchors: Appropriating point lights for spatially-anchored augmented reality interfaces. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 189-196).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ahuja2019lightanchors,
title={Lightanchors: Appropriating point lights for spatially-anchored augmented reality interfaces},
author={Ahuja, Karan and Pareddy, Sujeath and Xiao, Robert and Goel, Mayank and Harrison, Chris},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
pages={189--196},
year={2019}
}