User Interface Design for Military AR Applications

Abstract

Designing a user interface for military situation awareness presents challenges for managing information in a useful and usable manner. We present an integrated set of functions for the presentation of and interaction with information for a mobile augmented reality application for military applications. Our research has concentrated on four areas. We filter information based on relevance to the user (in turn based on location), evaluate methods for presenting information that represents entities occluded from the user's view, enable interaction through a top-down map view metaphor akin to current techniques used in the military and facilitate collaboration with other mobile users and/or a command center. In addition, we refined the user interface architecture to conform to requirements from subject matter experts. We discuss the lessons learned in our work and directions for future research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 12, 2010
Accession Number
ADA638062

Entities

People

  • Gregory O. Gibson
  • Kevin Karsch
  • Mark A. Livingston
  • Zhuming Ai

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Augmented Reality
  • Cameras
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Scripting Languages
  • Situational Awareness
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering
  • Video
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design