An Empirical User-based Study of Text Drawing Styles and Outdoor Background Textures for Augmented Reality
Joseph L. Gabbard, J. Edward Swan, Deborah Hix, Robert S. Schulman, Jason Lucas, Divya Gupta · 2006
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.