Augmenting Intelligent Environments: Augmented Reality as an
Interface to Intelligent Environments  Blair MacIntyre and
Elizabeth Mynatt  We believe that augmented reality techniques,
that use computer generated information to enhance the user’s
perception of the world, provide a solid foundation for imbuing
intelligent environments with ubiquitous display capabilities.
Visual and auditory personal augmented reality displays that are
worn or carried by individual users, combined with accurate
position and orientation of the user, allow information to be
presented in context on a per user basis. Augmented reality is
useful for both explicit and direct interaction for providing
foreground information as well as for implicit and passive
interaction for providing background interaction. We believe
that both auditory and visual augmented reality play an
important role, and that the combination will yield far more
compelling interfaces than either could alone.