An Empirical User-based Study of Text Drawing Styles and Outdoor Background Textures for Augmented Reality

  • Authors:
  • Joseph L. Gabbard;J. Edward Swan II;Deborah Hix;John Lucas;Divya Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Tech;Mississippi State University;Virginia Tech;Virginia Tech;Nokia

  • Venue:
  • VR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference 2005 on Virtual Reality
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A challenge in presenting augmenting information in outdoor augmented reality (AR) settings lies in the broad range of uncontrollable environmental conditions that may be present, specifically large-scale fluctuations in natural lighting and wide variations in likely backgrounds or objects in the scene. In this paper, we present a user-based study which examined the effects of outdoor background textures, changing outdoor illuminance values, and text drawing styles on user performance of a text identification task with an optical, see-through augmented reality system. We report significant effects for all of these variables, and discuss design guidelines and ideas for future work.