IMPAct: A Holistic Framework for Mixed Reality Robotic User Interface Classification and Design

摘要

The number of scientific publications combining robotic user interfaces and mixed realityhighly increased during the 21st Century. Counting the number of yearly added publicationscontaining the keywords “mixed reality” and “robot” listed on Google Scholar indicates exponentialgrowth. The interdisciplinary nature of mixed reality robotic user interfaces (MRRUI) makes themvery interesting and powerful, but also very challenging to design and analyze. Many single aspectshave already been successfully provided with theoretical structure, but to the best of our knowledge,there is no contribution combining everything into an MRRUI taxonomy. In this article, we present theresults of an extensive investigation of relevant aspects from prominent classifications and taxonomiesin the scientific literature. During a card sorting experiment with professionals from the field ofhuman–computer interaction, these aspects were clustered into named groups for providing a newstructure. Further categorization of these groups into four different categories was obvious andrevealed a memorable structure. Thus, this article provides a framework of objective, technical factors,which finds its application in a precise description of MRRUIs. An example shows the effectiveuse of the proposed framework for precise system description, therefore contributing to a betterunderstanding, design, and comparison of MRRUIs in this growing field of research.