University of Illinois (University of Illinois, University Library)

A collaborative team of researchers, librarians, and computer science students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will develop, deploy, test, and evaluate mobile applications that create novel “augmented book stacks.” The mobile applications will use the video functionality common in many smart phones to display helpful, real-time interactive graphics that overlay and augment bookshelves of interest to a user in a library. The team will evaluate the potential of such applications to provide improved discovery and access to both print and digital library resources.