HoloFacility: Get in Touch with Machines at Trade Fairs using Holograms

PubDate: October 2017

Teams: TU Dresden

Writers: Mandy Korzetz；Romina Kühn；Maria Gohlke；Uwe Aßmann

PDF: HoloFacility: Get in Touch with Machines at Trade Fairs using Holograms

Abstract

Exhibiting and presenting real facilities, machines or related software products to visitors at trade fairs can be very challenging due to space constraints, installation costs or explaining complex data processing. Addressing these challenges, we introduce HoloFacility, Augmented Reality (AR) applications for Microsoft HoloLens. They offer an immersive and interactive experience by using in-air gestures. Visitors become able to explore hidden information and functionality, which otherwise would remain invisible. Thus, HoloFacility supports understanding underlying software systems. It also allows visitors to control certain features of real and virtual facilities. We implemented three use cases with different levels of augmentation and connected them to manufacturing execution and facility management systems: HoloCoffee, HoloMachines and HoloRobot. With demonstrations at trade fairs, we received positive feedback on UX aspects of HoloFacility and first impressions on using HoloLens as explanation support.