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Abstract: Head-worn augmented reality (AR) - a technology that integrates 3D virtual objects into real environments in real-time - is is poised ot become a mainstream technology. The next generation of these devices will provide interactive services to people without the need for holding or glancing at a smartphone. This talk examines one aspect of that future interaction in detail, how pedestrian navigation interfaces might be designed. AR pedestrian interfaces have choices in how to convey navigation information, such as whether to place cues and instructions in a head-referenced system or to place them as fixtures in the environment. This talk will describe our laboratory's progress and findings designing such interfaces, and results on how users process spatial information and utilize the cues and features of the display.
Bio: Bobby Bodenheimer is a professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, with secondary appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Psychology, and Psychology & Human Development. His research examines virtual and augmented reality, specifically how people act, perceive, locomote, and navigate in virtual and augmented environments. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 130 peer-reviewed pubications, and has been the conference chair of the ACM APGV and the ACM SCA, the program chair of ACM APGV and IEEE VR, and is a member of the steering committee for ACM SAP. He is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award, and his research is funded in the U.S. by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, and Department of Defense. A senior member of the IEEE, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.