A master's graduate in economics from the University of Lucerne conducted research for her thesis on augmented reality (AR) with a collector's model of the VW Bulli.
VW bus model as test object
To test her hypothesis, Fankhauser did a laboratory experiment with a questionnaire that could be accessed via mobile phone or tablet. She used the collector's model of a VW bus as the test object. After three weeks, more than 300 students had taken part in her survey. Fankhauser's thesis was partially confirmed: the feeling of ownership is indeed stronger when the subjects were shown an AR representation of the Bulli model instead of a more conventional 2D representation.
New study
The native of Wolhus was also involved with AR outside of her Master's thesis. She was given the opportunity to work as a co-author on a research project at the University of Lucerne. The fact that this took place in parallel to her Master's thesis "was a good change of pace", says the former student. The project is a representative study on the perception and use of AR applications, the results of which will soon be published. It should provide information about the attitude of the Swiss population towards AR. However, as Fankhauser has experienced it so far, most people would be very positive and curious about this new technology.
Source: luzernerzeitung
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