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EN.601.453/653 Applications of Augmented Reality

This course is designed to expand your knowledge and introduce relevant topics necessary for developing and evaluating augmented reality applications.

The course explores:

  • How the fundamental concepts of perception influence the development of visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory applications in Augmented Reality.
  • The importance of integrating user-centered design concepts to create meaningful augmented reality applications.
  • The basic requirements to design and conduct user studies and guidelines on interpreting and evaluating the results from the studies.

EN.601.454/654 Augmented Reality

This course introduces students to the field of Augmented Reality. It reviews its basic definitions, principles and applications. It then focuses on Medical Augmented Reality and its particular requirements. The course also discusses the main issues of calibration, tracking, multi-modal registration, advance visualization and display technologies. Homework in this course will relate to the mathematical methods used for calibration, tracking and visualization in medical augmented reality.