Dr Wayne Piekarski

I am an adjunct staff member at the School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia. I was formerly the the Co-Director of the Wearable Computer Lab. I currently still supervise my PhD students with my adjunct position. I am now currently employed by WorldViz USA and live in Santa Barbara, California.

My main research area is augmented reality user interfaces in outdoor environments. My research interests are summarised on my research page and my PhD thesis page. I work on a number of projects, with my main project being the Tinmith mobile outdoor augmented reality system. Please click to find out more about:

Wayne's Home Page

Tinmith Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality Project

Wearable Computer Lab

• Computer graphics
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Unix and operating systems

General Chair For the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, Ca, 2006

Program Chair For the Australasian User Interface Conference, 2005, 2006

Co-Director of the Wearable Computer Lab

PhD So. Aust.

B.Eng. CSE (Hons.) So. Aust.

• Click here for the Tinmith project
  

  The Tinmith system is designed to support research into outdoor augmented reality. We have developed new easy to use user interface techniques to be used in 3D environments where keyboards and mice cannot be used. Using these user interfaces, we have developed complex applications which allow users to interact with their environment, and enter new information into the system about the world.

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Type	Reference
Paper STARS03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Software Architectures for the Development of Interactive Augmented Reality Modelling Applications. In International Workshop on Software Technology for Augmented Reality Systems, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2003.
Demo ISMAR03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith - Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality Modelling Demonstration. In 2nd Int'l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2003.
Paper ISMAR03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. An Object-Oriented Software Architecture for 3D Mixed Reality Applications. In 2nd Int'l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2003.
Poster ISMAR03	Piekarski, W., Avery, B., Thomas, B. H., and Malbezin, P. Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Tracking for Mobile 3D Mixed Reality. In 2nd Int'l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2003.
Paper HCI03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. ThumbsUp: Integrated Command and Pointer Interactions for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality Systems. In HCI International, Crete, Greece, June 2003.
Paper EGVE03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Interactive Augmented Reality Techniques for Construction at a Distance of 3D Geometry. In Immersive Projection Technology / Eurographics Virtual Environments, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2003.
Demo I3D02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith - A Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality Modelling System (Invited Demo). In Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, Ca, Apr 2003.
Paper LINUX03	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. ARQuake - Modifications and Hardware for Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming. In 4th Australian Linux Conference, Perth, Wa, Jan 2003.
Paper ISWC02	Toney, A., Mulley, B., Thomas, B. H., and Piekarski, W. Minimal Social Weight User Interactions for Wearable Computers in Business Suits. In 6th Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, Wa, Oct 2002.
N/A Statement CAMP02	Thomas, B. H. and Piekarski, W. Making Augmented Reality Outdoor Games: Why Is It Hard? In Production Process of 3D Computer Graphics Applications - Structures, Roles, and Tools (SIGGRAPH Campfire), Snowbird, Ut, 2002.
Journal VRRDA02	Thomas, B. H. and Piekarski, W. Glove Based User Interaction Techniques for Augmented Reality in an Outdoor Environment. Virtual Reality: Research, Development, and Applications, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002.
Journal PUC02	Thomas, B. H., Close, B., Donoghue, J., Squires, J., De Bondi, P., and Piekarski, W. First Person Indoor/Outdoor Augmented Reality Application: ARQuake. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2002.
Paper IWEC02	Thomas, B. H., Krul, N., Close, B., and Piekarski, W. Usability and Playability Issues for ARQuake. In 1st Int'l Workshop on Entertainment Computing, Tokyo, Japan, May 2002.
N/A Journal HCI02	Thomas, B. H., Quirchmayr, G., and Piekarski, W. Through Walls Communication for Medical Emergency Services. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 2002.
N/A Case Study ISWC02	Piekarski, W., Thomas, B. H., Vernik, R., and Evdokiou, P. Tinmith-Endeavour - A Platform For Outdoor Augmented Reality Research (Presented Case Study). In 6th Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, Wa, Oct 2002.
Poster ISMAR02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Bread Crumbs: A Technique for Modelling Large Outdoor Ground Features. In Int'l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Darmstadt, Germany, Oct 2002.
Poster ART02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Using ARToolKit for 3D Hand Position Tracking in Mobile Outdoor Environments. In 1st Int'l Augmented Reality Toolkit Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, Sep 2002.
Poster VR02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith-Hand: Unified User Interface Technology for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality and Indoor Virtual Reality. In IEEE Virtual Reality, Orlando, Fl, Mar 2002.
Journal ACM02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. ARQuake: The Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming System. ACM Communications, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 36-38, 2002.
Paper AUIC02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. The Tinmith System - Demonstrating New Techniques for Mobile Augmented Reality Modelling. In 3rd Australasian User Interfaces Conference, Melbourne, Vic, Jan 2002.
Report TR-VR02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Unifying Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality User Interfaces. Technical Report, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Jan 2002
Report TR-ARCH02	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith-evo5 - A Software Architecture for Supporting Research Into Outdoor Augmented Reality Environments. Technical Report, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Report No. CIS-02-001, Jan 2002
Poster ART02	Malbezin, P., Piekarski, W., and Thomas, B. H. Measuring ARToolKit Accuracy in Long Distance Tracking Experiments. In 1st Int'l Augmented Reality Toolkit Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, Sep 2002.
Poster ISAR01	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith-evo5 - An Architecture for Supporting Mobile Augmented Reality Environments. In 2nd Int'l Symposium on Augmented Reality, pp 177-178, New York, NY, Oct 2001.
Paper ISWC01	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith-Metro: New Outdoor Techniques for Creating City Models with an Augmented Reality Wearable Computer. In 5th Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp 31-38, Zurich, Switzerland, Oct 2001.
Paper LINUX01	Piekarski, W. and Thomas, B. H. Tinmith - Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux. In 2nd Australian Linux Conference, Sydney, NSW, Jan 2001.
Paper ISWC00	Thomas, B., Close, B., Donoghue, J., Squires, J., De Bondi, P., Morris, M., and Piekarski, W. ARQuake: An Outdoor/Indoor Augmented Reality First Person Application. In 4th Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp 139-146, Atlanta, Ga, Oct 2000.
Paper DCNET99	Thomas, B., Piekarski, W., and Gunther, B. Using Augmented Reality to Visualise Architecture Designs in an Outdoor Environment. In Design Computing on the Net - http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/dcnet99, Sydney, NSW, Nov 1999.
Paper IWAR99	Piekarski, W., Gunther, B., and Thomas, B. Integrating Virtual and Augmented Realities in an Outdoor Application. In 2nd Int'l Workshop on Augmented Reality, pp 45-54, San Francisco, Ca, Oct 1999.
Paper KES99	Piekarski, W., Thomas, B., Hepworth, D., Gunther, B., and Demczuk, V. An Architecture for Outdoor Wearable Computers to Support Augmented Reality and Multimedia Applications. In 3rd Int'l Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, pp 70-73, Adelaide, SA, Aug 1999.
Paper ACSC99	Piekarski, W., Hepworth, D., Demczuk, V., Thomas, B., and Gunther, B. A Mobile Augmented Reality User Interface for Terrestrial Navigation. In 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, pp 122-133, Auckland, NZ, Jan 1999.
Poster ISWC98	Thomas, B. H., Demczuk, V., Piekarski, W., Hepworth, D., and Gunther, B. A Wearable Computer System With Augmented Reality to Support Terrestrial Navigation. In 2nd Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp 168-171, Pittsburg, Pa, Oct 1998.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Computer Science

• 3D computer graphics
• virtual reality
• augmented reality
• wearable computers