User interface design for military AR applications
This work addresses usability problems for military personnel using AR systems, but appears incremental as it builds on existing techniques.
The researchers tackled the challenge of designing a user interface for military augmented reality applications to enhance situation awareness, resulting in an integrated set of functions for information presentation and interaction that includes filtering based on location, handling occluded entities, using a top-down map view, and enabling collaboration.
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.