Factors Affecting Augmented Reality Adoption in the Retail Industry

Mobile Augmented Reality for Retail Environments

We present a mobile handheld augmented reality system for presenting product information to a consumer. The system allows the user to view a three-dimensional model of product package contents with a mobile phone. The model is displayed over the product packaging, allowing the user to view the package contents without opening the package. Additional digital content related to the product can al...

An analysis of the factors affecting the adoption of the Internet in the UK retail sector

A multitude of opinions has been propounded to explain how the Internet can be exploited by commercial organisations. For the most part they are speculative, visionary or promotional. This work seeks to redress the balance by reporting on an empirical research project that has recently been conducted into the adoption of the Internet within the UK retail sector. More specifically, the research ...

Augmented Reality for the Automotive Industry

Drivers and Bottlenecks in the Adoption of Augmented Reality Applications

In the last decade, Augmented Reality (AR) has been one of the emerging technologies that have been in the centre of attention among academics and business practitioners. Despite the numerous studies which have demonstrated the multitude of benefits derived from AR applications, the technology has not reached yet its full potential due to various bottlenecks which are preventing it from becomin...

Augmented Reality meets Industry: Interactive Robot Programming

Most of the interfaces which are designed to control or program industrial robots are complex and require special training for the user and the programmer. This complexity alongside the changing environment of small medium enterprises (SMEs) has lead to absence of robots from SMEs. The costs of (re)programming the robots and (re)training the robot users exceed initial costs of installation and ...