Accession Number:

ADA604452

Title:

Effectiveness of Occluded Object Representations at Displaying Ordinal Depth Information in Augmented Reality

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Livingston, Mark A.
• Moser, Kenneth R.

Report Date:

2013-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

3.0

Abstract:

An experiment was conducted to investigate the utility of a number of iconographic styles in relaying ordinal depth information at vista space distances of more than 1900m. The experiment consisted of two tasks distance judgments with respect to discrete zones and ordinal depth determination in the presence of icon overlap. The virtual object representations were chosen based on their effectiveness as demonstrated in previous studies. The first task is an adaptation of a previous study investigating distance judgments of occluded objects at medium field distances. We found that only one of the icon styles fared better than guessing. The second is a novel task important to situation awareness and tested two specific cases ordinal depth of icons with 50 and 100 overlap. We found that the case of full overlap made the task effectively impossible with all icon styles, whereas in the case of partial overlap, the Ground Plane had a clear advantage.

Descriptors:

• *SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
• *VIRTUAL REALITY
• DEPTH
• EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
• OVERLAP
• RANGE(DISTANCE)

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE