AR You on Track? Investigating Effects of Augmented Reality Anchoring on Dual-Task Performance While Walking
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| author | Rasch, Julian Wilhalm, Matthias Müller, Florian Chiossi, Francesco |
| author_facet | Rasch, Julian Wilhalm, Matthias Müller, Florian Chiossi, Francesco |
| contents | With the increasing spread of AR head-mounted displays suitable for everyday use, interaction with information becomes ubiquitous, even while walking. However, this requires constant shifts of our attention between walking and interacting with virtual information to fulfill both tasks adequately. Accordingly, we as a community need a thorough understanding of the mutual influences of walking and interacting with digital information to design safe yet effective interactions. Thus, we systematically investigate the effects of different AR anchors (hand, head, torso) and task difficulties on user experience and performance. We engage participants (n=26) in a dual-task paradigm involving a visual working memory task while walking. We assess the impact of dual-tasking on both virtual and walking performance, and subjective evaluations of mental and physical load. Our results show that head-anchored AR content least affected walking while allowing for fast and accurate virtual task interaction, while hand-anchored content increased reaction times and workload. |
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| spellingShingle | AR You on Track? Investigating Effects of Augmented Reality Anchoring on Dual-Task Performance While Walking Rasch, Julian Wilhalm, Matthias Müller, Florian Chiossi, Francesco Human-Computer Interaction With the increasing spread of AR head-mounted displays suitable for everyday use, interaction with information becomes ubiquitous, even while walking. However, this requires constant shifts of our attention between walking and interacting with virtual information to fulfill both tasks adequately. Accordingly, we as a community need a thorough understanding of the mutual influences of walking and interacting with digital information to design safe yet effective interactions. Thus, we systematically investigate the effects of different AR anchors (hand, head, torso) and task difficulties on user experience and performance. We engage participants (n=26) in a dual-task paradigm involving a visual working memory task while walking. We assess the impact of dual-tasking on both virtual and walking performance, and subjective evaluations of mental and physical load. Our results show that head-anchored AR content least affected walking while allowing for fast and accurate virtual task interaction, while hand-anchored content increased reaction times and workload. |
| title | AR You on Track? Investigating Effects of Augmented Reality Anchoring on Dual-Task Performance While Walking |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20944 |