The Evolution of the Argon Web Framework Through Its Use Creating Cultural Heritage and Community–Based Augmented Reality Applications

• Published in: Human-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts pp. 112 - 124
• Main Authors: Speiginer, Gheric, MacIntyre, Blair, Bolter, Jay, Rouzati, Hafez, Lambeth, Amy, Levy, Laura, Baird, Laurie, Gandy, Maribeth, Sanders, Matt, Davidson, Brian, Engberg, Maria, Clark, Russ, Mynatt, Elizabeth
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Augmented reality; Community computing; Web-based technology
• ISBN: 331921005X; 9783319210056
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21006-3_12

The Argon project was started to explore the creation of Augmented Reality applications with web technology. We have found this approach to be particularly useful for community-based applications. The Argon web browser has gone through two versions, informed by the work of our students and collaborators on these kinds of applications. In this paper, we highlight a number of the applications we and others have created, what we learned from them, and how our experiences creating these applications informed the design of Argon2 and the requirements for the next version, Argon3.