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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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Wearable vs Handheld vs Projection: Methods for Quantifying the Impact of AR Modality

Aug 18 2021

- Wearable AR displays provide frontline workers in AREA member companies with information without requiring the user to hold a display in their hands or look away from their tasks while obtaining instructions. - However, deploying display devices with entirely different form factors than those widely adopted, developing and deploying appropriate software, and integrating and training users on the new devices introduces time and expenses – particularly if handheld displays have been well-integrated in the current procedures. - The AREA members need ways to measure and/or to calculate the investments and benefits of using different form factors in the workplace.

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Research Reports

Feb 9 2021

The 12th AREA Research Project Deployment of Wearable AR in Highly Secure Corporate Environments The executive summary outlines a research project to investigate the deployment of wearable Augmented Reality (AR) in highly secure corporate environments. The study focuses on addressing cybersecurity risks associated with AR adoption in enterprise settings, particularly the need for application-level authentication...

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Research Methodologies

Nov 18 2020

Documented Research Methodologies Enterprise AR oriented research questions can be addressed by a mix of “tried & true” methodologies mostly developed in social sciences (e.g. survey research or IDIs), highly AR specific, technical methods (e.g. quantifying the impact of vergence-accommodation) or mix of these methodologies. Research methodologies with a history in other disciplines have been...

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