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Attributes of subtle cues for facilitating visual search in augmented reality

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posted on 2023-05-18, 00:45 authored by Lu, W, Duh, HBL, Feiner, S, Zhao, Q
Goal-oriented visual search is performed when a person intentionally seeks a target in the visual environment. In augmented reality (AR) environments, visual search can be facilitated by augmenting virtual cues in the person's field of view. Traditional use of explicit AR cues can potentially degrade visual search performance due to the creation of distortions in the scene. An alternative to explicit cueing, known as subtle cueing, has been proposed as a clutter-neutral method to enhance visual search in video-see-through AR. However, the effects of subtle cueing are still not well understood, and more research is required to determine the optimal methods of applying subtle cueing in AR. We performed two experiments to investigate the variables of scene clutter, subtle cue opacity, size, and shape on visual search performance. We introduce a novel method of experimentally manipulating the scene clutter variable in a natural scene while controlling for other variables. The findings provide supporting evidence for the subtlety of the cue, and show that the clutter conditions of the scene can be used both as a global classifier, as well as a local performance measure.

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Publication title

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volume

20

Pagination

404-412

ISSN

1077-2626

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

IEEE Computer Soc

Place of publication

10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Po Box 3014, Los Alamitos, USA, Ca, 90720-1314

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Copyright 2014 IEEE

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