The ASPECTA toolkit: affordable Full Coverage Displays

Julian Petford, Miguel Nacenta, Carl Gutwin, Joseph Eremondi, Cody Ede

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Abstract

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 requirements
and 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 how
ASPECTA can simplify configuration and development while still dramatically reducing the cost for creators of applications that take advantage of full-coverage displays.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
PublisherACM
Pages87-105
ISBN (Electronic)9781450343664
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2016
Event5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays - Oulu, Finland
Duration: 20 Jun 201622 Jun 2016

Conference

Conference5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityOulu
Period20/06/1622/06/16

Keywords

  • Full Coverage Displays
  • Hemispherical Projection
  • Toolkits

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