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Fighting Technology Dumb Down: Our Cognitive Capacity for Effortful AR Navigation Tools

Authors : James Wen, Agnes Deneka, William S. Helton, Andreas Dünser, Mark Billinghurst

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

By overlaying virtual guidance information directly over the surrounding environment, Augmented Reality (AR) is seen as an easy alternative to maps for pedestrians navigating in unfamiliar urban environments. It is hypothesized, however, that easing navigation tasks would result in weaker cognitive maps, leaving users more vulnerable to becoming lost should their navigation device fail. We describe an outdoor navigation study that highlighted the gap between theoretical expectations and real world testing with navigation tools. We addressed the issues by creating a simulation system for testing navigation tools and report on the results of a study comparing AR with maps. We then extended the system to support simultaneous secondary tasks to assess relative workload. We present this as a way of objectively measuring relative cognitive effort expended on navigation tool use. Our findings are helpful in the design of mobile pedestrian navigation tools seeking to balance navigational efficiency with mental map formation.

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Metadata
Title
Fighting Technology Dumb Down: Our Cognitive Capacity for Effortful AR Navigation Tools
Authors
James Wen
Agnes Deneka
William S. Helton
Andreas Dünser
Mark Billinghurst
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-07226-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-07227-2

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07227-2_50