Visual clutter management in augmented reality: Effects of three label separation methods on spatial judgments

3DUI - IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-118

  Peterson, Stephen D ^a   Axholt, Magnus ^a   Cooper, Matthew ^a   Ellis, Stephen R ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Information layering; Label placement; Stereoscopic displays; User interfaces; Visual clutter

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SCENES; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INFORMATION LAYERING; LABEL PLACEMENT; LABEL SEPARATION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL JUDGMENTS; STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS; USER IDENTIFICATION; VIEW PLANE; VISUAL CLUTTER;

AUGMENTED REALITY; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); LABELS; SEPARATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 70349304319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2009.4811215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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