Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale
As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automatically recombined to create many markers as subtle vari...
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| author | Preston, William Benford, Steve Thorn, Emily-Clare Koleva, Boriana Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Mortier, Richard Quinn, Anthony Stell, John Worboys, Michael |
| author_facet | Preston, William Benford, Steve Thorn, Emily-Clare Koleva, Boriana Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Mortier, Richard Quinn, Anthony Stell, John Worboys, Michael |
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| description | As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automatically recombined to create many markers as subtle variants of a common theme. First, we extend the d-touch topological approach to creating visual markers that has previously been shown to support creative design with two new techniques: area order codes and visual checksums. We then show how the topological structure of such markers provides the basis for recombining designs to generate many variations. We demonstrate our approach through the creation of beautiful, personalized and interactive wallpaper. We reflect on how technologies must enable designers to balance goals of scalability, aesthetics and reliability in creating beautiful interactive decoration. |
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| spelling | nottingham-418862020-05-04T18:50:26Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41886/ Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale Preston, William Benford, Steve Thorn, Emily-Clare Koleva, Boriana Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Mortier, Richard Quinn, Anthony Stell, John Worboys, Michael As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automatically recombined to create many markers as subtle variants of a common theme. First, we extend the d-touch topological approach to creating visual markers that has previously been shown to support creative design with two new techniques: area order codes and visual checksums. We then show how the topological structure of such markers provides the basis for recombining designs to generate many variations. We demonstrate our approach through the creation of beautiful, personalized and interactive wallpaper. We reflect on how technologies must enable designers to balance goals of scalability, aesthetics and reliability in creating beautiful interactive decoration. 2017-06-14 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Preston, William, Benford, Steve, Thorn, Emily-Clare, Koleva, Boriana, Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan, Mortier, Richard, Quinn, Anthony, Stell, John and Worboys, Michael (2017) Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale. In: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 10-14 June 2017, Edinburgh, UK. (In Press) Visual markers topological markers fiducial markers patterns computer vision image recognition |
| spellingShingle | Visual markers topological markers fiducial markers patterns computer vision image recognition Preston, William Benford, Steve Thorn, Emily-Clare Koleva, Boriana Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Mortier, Richard Quinn, Anthony Stell, John Worboys, Michael Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title | Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title_full | Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title_fullStr | Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title_short | Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| title_sort | enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale |
| topic | Visual markers topological markers fiducial markers patterns computer vision image recognition |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41886/ |