A collaborative game to study presence and situational awareness in a physical and an augmented reality environment

Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch

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Abstract

While augmented reality research has grown into a mature field over the last years, the aspects of situational awareness and presence of augmented reality (AR) are still quite open research topics. This paper introduces a collaborative game to explore the different perception of situational awareness and presence in a physical and an AR environment. The game is employed as an approximation of collaboratively solving complex problems. The goal of the game is to jointly build a tower with either physical blocks in a physical environment or virtual blocks in an augmented reality environment. A first study with 18 users shows the feasibility of the game and questionnaire design for studying the different perception of situational awareness and presence in a physical and an AR environment. The study further identifies necessary future research with regard to the perception of presence and awareness in AR.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)247-270
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Universal Computer Science
Volume22
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Augmented reality
  • Collaboration
  • Presence
  • Situational awareness

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