**Meet the editor**

Professor A.Y.C. Nee has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1989. He received his PhD and Doctor of Engineering from Manchester and UMIST respectively. His research interest is in CAD of tool, die, fixture and process planning, and augmented reality applications in manufacturing. In 1990, he was elected as a fellow of CIRP (International Academy for

Production Engineering) and SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers). Currently, he is the President of CIRP (2011-2012). He serves as chief editor of Springer, World Scientific, and the Scrivener-Wiley book series on manufacturing technologies. He is also the Asian editor of IJAMT and IJMTM and has worked on editorial boards of some 20 international journals. He has published over 450 refereed journal and conference papers and has been an editor and author of 10 books.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Outdoor and Mobile AR Applications 1** 

Zhuming Ai and Mark A. Livingston

Chapter 3 **The Cloud-Mobile Convergence Paradigm for Augmented Reality 33** 

Giovanni Saggio and Davide Borra

Chapter 5 **Augmented Reality Talking Heads as a Support for Speech Perception and Production 89** 

Charles Woodward and Mika Hakkarainen

**Applications in the Neuroscience Domain 131**  Pedro Gamito, Jorge Oliveira, Diogo Morais,

**CAD System at Construction Sites 15** 

Chapter 4 **Augmented Reality for Restoration/Reconstruction** 

**of Artefacts with Artistic or Historical Value 59** 

**and Human Modeling and Applications 87** 

**for Architectural and Construction Site Visualization 115** 

Jesús Gimeno, Pedro Morillo, Sergio Casas and Marcos Fernández

Chapter 1 **Mixed Reality on a Virtual Globe 3** 

Chapter 2 **An Augmented Reality (AR)** 

**Part 2 AR in Biological, Medical** 

Olov Engwall

Chapter 6 **Mobile Mixed Reality System** 

Chapter 7 **NeuAR – A Review of the VR/AR** 

Pedro Rosa and Tomaz Saraiva

Xun Luo

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#### **Preface** XI


Pedro Gamito, Jorge Oliveira, Diogo Morais, Pedro Rosa and Tomaz Saraiva

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#### **Part 3 Novel AR Applications in Daily Living and Learning 209**

