TY - GEN
T1 - The ASPECTA toolkit
T2 - 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
AU - Petford, Julian
AU - Nacenta, Miguel
AU - Gutwin, Carl
AU - Eremondi, Joseph
AU - Ede, Cody
PY - 2016/6/20
Y1 - 2016/6/20
N2 - Full Coverage Displays (FCDs) cover the interior surface of an entire room with pixels. FCDs make possible many new kinds of immersive display experiences - but current technology for building FCDs is expensive and complex, and software support for developing full-coverage applications is limited. To address these problems, we introduce ASPECTA, a hardware configuration and software toolkit that provide a low-cost and easy-to-use solution for creating full coverage systems. We outline ASPECTA’s (minimal) hardware requirementsand describe the toolkit’s architecture, development API, server implementation, and configuration tool; we also provide a full example of how the toolkit can be used.We performed two evaluations of the toolkit: a case study of a research system built with ASPECTA, and a laboratory study that tested the effectiveness of the API. Our evaluations, as well as multiple examples of ASPECTA in use, show howASPECTA can simplify configuration and development while still dramatically reducing the cost for creators of applications that take advantage of full-coverage displays.
AB - Full Coverage Displays (FCDs) cover the interior surface of an entire room with pixels. FCDs make possible many new kinds of immersive display experiences - but current technology for building FCDs is expensive and complex, and software support for developing full-coverage applications is limited. To address these problems, we introduce ASPECTA, a hardware configuration and software toolkit that provide a low-cost and easy-to-use solution for creating full coverage systems. We outline ASPECTA’s (minimal) hardware requirementsand describe the toolkit’s architecture, development API, server implementation, and configuration tool; we also provide a full example of how the toolkit can be used.We performed two evaluations of the toolkit: a case study of a research system built with ASPECTA, and a laboratory study that tested the effectiveness of the API. Our evaluations, as well as multiple examples of ASPECTA in use, show howASPECTA can simplify configuration and development while still dramatically reducing the cost for creators of applications that take advantage of full-coverage displays.
KW - Full Coverage Displays
KW - Hemispherical Projection
KW - Toolkits
UR - http://aspecta.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/
U2 - 10.1145/2914920.2915006
DO - 10.1145/2914920.2915006
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 87
EP - 105
BT - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
PB - ACM
Y2 - 20 June 2016 through 22 June 2016
ER -