IRVO: an Interaction Model for designing Collaborative Mixed Reality systems

TL;DR

IRVO is a novel interaction model tailored for designing collaborative mixed reality systems, explicitly modeling user interactions with real and virtual objects to improve design processes.

Contribution

The paper introduces IRVO, a new interaction modeling approach for mixed reality environments, integrating it into a model-based design framework for improved application development.

Findings

IRVO effectively models interactions in mixed reality systems.

IRVO can be integrated into existing design approaches.

The model supports the design of collaborative mixed reality applications.

Abstract

This paper presents an interaction model adapted to mixed reality environments known as IRVO (Interacting with Real and Virtual Objects). IRVO aims at modeling the interaction between one or more users and the Mixed Reality system by representing explicitly the objects and tools involved and their relationship. IRVO covers the design phase of the life cycle and models the intended use of the system. In a first part, we present a brief review of related HCI models. The second part is devoted to the IRVO model, its notation and some examples. In the third part, we present how IRVO is used for designing applications and in particular we show how this model can be integrated in a Model-Based Approach (CoCSys) which is currently designed at our lab.