Impact Evaluation of Augmented Reality Use in Collaborative Activities in an Industrial Context

• Breno Keller UFOP
• Saul Delabrida UFOP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ihc.2019.8414

Abstract

The advent of Industry 4.0 has created new development demands, such as the creation of interconnected systems and new ways of interacting with these systems. Thus, Mixed Reality can be used as a facilitating tool for this process. Therefore, the combination of conducting collaborative activities in an industrial context with the use of Mixed Reality resources as intermediaries of collaboration is promising. Therefore, the objective of this work is to evaluate how the use of Mixed Reality resources impact the accomplishment of collaborative activities in Industry 4.0. As partial results, we have developed a tool for interaction between people using Mixed Reality, and we hope that the results obtained by performing user tests show ways and new strategies for the use of these resources in the industrial context.

Keywords: Industrial Inspection, User Studies, Mixed Reality, Collaboration

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