Mixed Reality gestures for printer maintenance

  • Pedro MACHADO DOS SANTOS

Student thesis: Master typesMaster in Computer science

Abstract

We live in a world where immersive technology is ubiquitous in today’s society. The most common types of immersive technology are Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR). A great example of AR is Snapchat or Pokemon Go. Thanks to the availability of devices that make easier the access to this kind of technology, several studies were made in different fields, such as maintenance. This work aims to explore Leap Motion Controller hand detection capabilities to build a prototype for printer maintenance. We performed a user-elicitation study with 12 participants to find out their preferred gestures for a set of referents. Based on the resulting gestures, we present a complete user- defined gesture set and quantitative agreement rates. We implemented a mixed reality setup with a Leap Motion Controller and based user-defined gesture set, and test it with a series of printer maintenance tasks.
Date of Award29 Aug 2022
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • University of Namur
SupervisorBruno Dumas (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • mixed reality
  • immersive technology
  • mid-air interactions
  • hand gestures
  • maintenance
  • training

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