Locating Nearby Physical Objects in Augmented Reality
Uwe Gruenefeld, Lars Prädel, Wilko Heuten
18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Locating objects in physical environments can be an exhausting
and frustrating task, particularly when these objects are out of the
user’s view or occluded by other objects. With recent advances in
Augmented Reality (AR), these environments can be augmented
to visualize objects for which the user searches. However, it is currently unclear which visualization strategy can best support users
in locating these objects. In this paper, we compare a printed map to
three different AR visualization strategies: (1) in-view visualization,
(2) out-of-view visualization, and (3) the combination of in-view
and out-of-view visualizations. Our results show that in-view visualization reduces error rates for object selection accuracy, while
additional out-of-view object visualization improves users’ search
time performance. However, combining in-view and out-of-view
visualizations leads to visual clutter, which distracts users.
11 / 2019
inproceedings
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