Author(s)

Clement Onime¹, Olatunde Abiona²

¹Information and Communication Technology Section, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
²Department of Computer Information Systems, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, USA.

In fields such as science and engineering, virtual environment is commonly used to provide replacements for practical hands-on laboratories. Sometimes, these environments take the form of a remote interface to the physical laboratory apparatus and at other times, in the form of a complete software implementation that simulates the laboratory apparatus. In this paper, we report on the use of a semi-immersive 3D mobile Augmented Reality (mAR) interface and limited simulations as a replacement for practical hands-on laboratories in science and engineering. The 3D-mAR based interfaces implementations for three different experiments (from micro-electronics, power and communications engineering) are presented; the discovered limitations are discussed along with the results of an evaluation by science and engineering students from two different institutions and plans for future work.

Mobile Augmented Reality, Laboratory Experiments, 3D

Onime, C. and Abiona, O. (2016) 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Interface for Laboratory Experiments. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, 9, 67-76. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2016.94006.