UIAR Common Sense: an Augmented Reality Framework for Creating Games to Collect Common Sense from Users

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) applications have become widespread with the continued miniaturization of technology. With the increasing use of smart phones, which often provide increased processing power, enhanced and open software platforms, Augmented Reality has become instrumental in the way we perceive our surroundings and the information that it carries. Augmented Reality has also become a welcome visualization tool for many fields, not restricted to Human-Computer Interaction. In this paper we present a novel approach for building interactive interfaces using Augmented Reality and we give an example how one can use our framework for creating games to collect common sense knowledge from users. We present a software framework for ubiquitous Augmented Reality enhancement for human-computer interaction called UIAR (User Interface through AR). Our framework improves on four areas in Augmented Reality development that we currently see lacking.