Pileus: umbrella for mobile augmented reality

ABSTRACT

Pileus is the Internet umbrella which augments experience in rainy days. It was designed to couple embodied interaction and social function on the web. It has a built-in camera, a GPS and a large screen under surface of an umbrella to cooperate with photo-sharing service on the internet (Flickr) and 3d-map navigation (Google Earth) in a city. In this paper, we describe that; Pileus is a medium with walking activity to interact with information embedded in a city by metadata.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.7 Organization and Design

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
Flickr, HCI, Web 2.0, augmented-reality, design, human-information interaction, mobile, tangible user interface, umbrella, virtual-reality