Caption Placement on an Augmented Reality Head Worn Device
C. Ian Schipper, Bo Brinkman · 2017
Head worn augmented reality devices present new opportunities for creating assistive devices. This work investigates possible locations for captions for one-on-one conversations from a visibility and usability standpoint. Even in a one-on-one conversation there are interesting design challenges. We investigate 3 main factors: 1) Reference frame for captions (viewport or world coordinates); 2) Relation to the viewer (track the viewer's view, or track the speaker); and 3) Relation to speaker's face (most desirable vertical offset for captions). In this preliminary work, we argue that world coordinates are preferable (for reference frame), and then present our work in progress on the other factors.