ARphy: Managing Photo Collections Using Physical Objects in Augmented Reality

HCI Lab - Seoul National University (2020)

ARphy is a tangible interface that extends current ways of organizing photo collections by enabling people to interact with digital photos using physical objects in Augmented Reality. ARphy contextually connects photos with real objects and utilizes physical affordances so that people can add more meanings to their collections and interact with them naturally. We also created an ARphy Interaction Design Toolkit, which can add ARphy-compatible interactions to any object, so that people can register their own things for organizing collections. We developed a prototype using seven everyday objects and evaluated ARphy through a qualitative user study. Our findings indicate that ARphy is intuitive, immersive, and enjoyable and has the potential for selectively managing collections using photos and objects that have personal meanings.

A collection created by a Blue Jays fan to commemorate his first visit to an MLB game.

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Publications

Han Joo Chae, Youli Chang, Minji Kim, Gwanmo Park, and Jinwook Seo. 2020. ARphy: Managing Photo Collections Using Physical Objects in AR. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). To appear. [PDF]