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Chemical and Radiation Sensors for AR Devices

Aug 18 2021

- Real time display of IoT sensor readings provide user context, beyond those that rely on RGB or RGBD cameras for real time environment acquisition. - The lack of connection with sensors measuring gas or radiation represents a gap which can be addressed through research and could contribute to the development of standards. - The visualization of gases and other salient chemical or radioactive features of the physical world are important and would serve as the basis for decision making for users when operating equipment in conditions unsuitable to vision-based sensors.

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What Factors Influence Perceptions of Presence?

Aug 18 2021

- AREA members will benefit from having new ways to define effective AR application environments from the end user perspective. - Deeper understanding of presence and when immersion is broken will reduce how frequently an operator must shift their attention, which may cause cognitive tunneling associated with decreased awareness of critical elements in either environment, higher perceptions of mental workload, safety issues, and decreased productivity. - Understanding the level of fidelity necessary to achieve optimal presence will help AR developers know the appropriate effort and resources to invest in specific use cases. - The research will also assess if and...

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New Power Sources for Wearable AR Displays

Aug 18 2021

- Most of the leading AR display component and system manufacturers are AREA members. - Use of wearable AR displays in AREA member settings is limited by many factors, one of which is the size and weight of the display needed in order to store sufficient energy to power the computational processing requirements of AR experiences. - The issues of power storage to deliver energy for a full work shift can be addressed through reducing local (on-device) processing and power requirements, and increasing storage capacity. - Having continuously generated power from a source such as the movements or environment of...

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AR Visualization of Body Sensors for Worker Biofeedback

Aug 18 2021

- Employees of AREA members may work in conditions that are highly stressful and/or require postures that introduce risk of injuries. Others must concentrate while working in environmental conditions that are known or anticipated to produce risks to employee well-being (e.g., around vibrations or loud machines). Body-worn sensors can detect abnormal behaviors in the workers' involuntary bodily functions, postures, and use of body parts. - The implementation of body-worn sensors could be controversial if their ability to protect user data privacy is not clearly demonstrated. - By using a body-area network and connecting it with their AR display, an employee...

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Impact of Spatial Vision on Visual Encoding and Memory Anchoring

Aug 18 2021

- All AREA members seek to reduce cognitive load and increase performance and memory encoding of workers during the performance of complex tasks. - To date, the role of stereoscopic vision in AR experiences in spatial understanding and memory has not been studied. When these are better understood and the impacts are quantified, designers of experiences and interfaces will be able to accelerate memory anchoring and spatial awareness. - Determining the specific contributions of AR to human memory and cognitive functions will contribute to calculating return on investment on AR in enterprise, justifying investments and removing enterprise AR adoption barriers.

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