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User Awareness of Tracking Uncertainties in AR Navigation Scenarios

SCHEDULE INFORMATION

Event TitleRoomStartEnd
Demos and PostersTBA02 Oct, 2013 01:30 PM02 Oct, 2013 04:30 PM
Contributors: 
Frieder Pankratz
Contributors: 
Andreas Dippon
Contributors: 
Tayfur Coskun
Contributors: 
Gudrun Klinker
Description
Current Augmented Reality navigation applications for pedestrians usually do not visualize tracking errors. However, tracking uncertainties can accumulate so that the user is presented with a distorted impression of navigation accuracy. To increase the awareness of users about potential imperfections of the tracking at a given time, we alter the visualization of the navigation system. We developed four visualization and error visualization concepts and used a controlled Mixed Reality environment to conduct a pilot study. We found that, while error visualization has the potential to improve AR navigation systems, it is difficult to find suitable visualizations, which are correctly understood among the users.