Facilitating Mixed Reality Decision-Support Tools: Modeling, Collaborative Interaction, and Information Display
Abstract
Building on the PI and Co-PI team~s successful work on View Management and User InterfaceOptimization for Wide-Area Mobile Augmented Reality to enable informed design decisions forMarine Corps Augmented Reality Systems, this proposal describes a three-year research agendaon enabling and evaluating mobile collaborative mixed-reality decision-support tools. Themotivation comes from the tremendous opportunities and increasingly successful deployment ofmixed and augmented reality solutions in Marine Corps applications. The research team aims tobetter support wide-area AR users, and especially decision makers in the field, such asemergency managers, maintenance supervisors, and squad leaders, with data about theenvironment and with collaborative interfaces that allow them to make the right decisions at theright time.This agenda is focused on three interconnected overall threads, namely 1) augmented realityscene modeling using hybrid mobile sensors, 2) design and evaluation of collaborative interfacesfor in-the-field operations and training, specifically focusing on planning, data analysis, andmaintenance activities, and 3) scientific studies towards understanding the human-computerinteraction involved in effective information display for accurate analytics, situation awareness,and navigation in the field.The research team~s established infrastructures for prototyping and evaluating AR capabilitiesat the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Virginia Tech (VT) will be utilized todemonstrate and evaluate information display and collaborative user interface options forinfrastructure planning and maintenance, as well as operations purposes. The work aims toprovide demonstrations of promising future capabilities, enabling reliable cost-benefit analysisand iterative design, including quantitative comparative evaluations before deployment. Theresearchers will establish novel indoor and outdoor AR experimentation platforms at UCSB andVT and also utilize an established AR Simulation approach, testing variations of the planned ARelements as simulated in high-end controlled VR and AR environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 26, 2019
- Source ID
- N000141912553
Entities
People
- Tobias Hollerer
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, Santa Barbara