AR Basketball: Consolidating Fingerstroke-Level Model for a Visuo-Haptic Augmented Reality based Smartphone Application

In the era of extensive progression of smartphones, gaming applications have become an undisputed reality of our routine micro-moments. And when it comes to a realistic gaming experience, Augmented Reality has shown significant advancement to uplift itself from just a fantastical concept to one of the front-runners of todays gaming industry. In this work, we propose a Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) based smartphone application, namely “AR Basketball” to justify the flexible adjustments required to design an intrinsic reality-based gaming UI. This research is one of the earliest investigations to revisit operators of Finger-stroke Level Model (FLM) for MAR and attempts to map different finger-stroke activities with touch-sensitive AR-based smartphone applications. The complete game was uploaded in Google play store for user feedback after being fused with several other common AR sporting applications developed by one of the authors conducting this research work. The empirical study shows that a redesigned FLM for MAR ensures better task completion time compared to the same action-based gaming applications designed for other platforms.