Towards a Structured Design of Augmented Reality Applications

Mixed Reality (MR) and especially Augmented Reality (AR) technologies provide high potentials for future applications. However, a lack of concepts and tools for a structured design of AR systems can be noticed. Our approach to address this problem is a visual language for the abstract specification of AR applications, called SSIML/AR. We plan to extend this language to enable the description of relations between AR user interface elements. Such relations can provide information about the user’s current actions. CR Categories: D.2.2 [Software Engineering]: Design Tools and Techniques---Computer-aided software engineering (CASE), Object-oriented design methods, User interfaces; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics] Methodology and Techniques---Languages; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation] Multimedia Information Systems---Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities; H.5.2. [Information Interfaces and Presentation] User Interfaces--Graphical User Interfaces.