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Camera-View Augmented Reality: Overlaying Navigation Instructions on a Real-Time View of the Road

NCJ Number
308115
Date Published
2018
Length
10 pages
Annotation

The authors study the use of an augmented reality (AR) navigation aid that overlays instructions on a real-time view of the road.

Abstract

To answer whether drivers would be well-served with a navigation aid that overlays augmented reality (AR) content on a live feed from a camera that shows the forward road, the authors conducted a simulator-based study and compared the use of such a navigation aid to the use of a head-up AR aid, as well as to the use of 2D map shown on a head-down display. The results confirm prior results that a head-up AR navigation aid can keep drivers' visual attention on the road, and that drivers like such a navigation aid. The results also indicate that a camera-view AR navigation aid might not be well-received by drivers. Augmented reality navigation aids have been investigated in a number of studies, and results are encouraging, especially for large, head-up displays. However, such displays are not commercially available -- in fact they are rare in laboratories as well. (Published Abstract Provided)

Date Published: January 1, 2018