As we develop computing platforms for augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMDs) technologies for social or workplace environments, understanding how users interact with notifications in immersive environments has become crucial. We researched effectiveness and user preferences of different interaction modalities for notifications, along with two types of notification display methods. In our study, participants were immersed in a simulated cooking environment using an AR-HMD, where they had to fulfill customer orders. During the cooking process, participants received notifications related to customer orders and ingredient updates. They were given three interaction modes for those notifications: voice commands, eye gaze and dwell, and hand gestures. To manage multiple notifications at once, we also researched two different notification list displays, one attached to the user’s hand and one in the world. Results indicate that participants preferred using their hands to interact with notifications and having the list of notifications attached to their hands. Voice and gaze interaction was perceived as having lower usability than touch.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 plabst2023exploring
%A Plabst, Lucas
%A Raikwar, Aditya
%A Oberdörfer, Sebastian
%A Ortega, Francisco Raul
%A Niebling, Florian
%B 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2023
%I Association for Computing Machinery
%K myown oberdoerfer
%R 10.1145/3611659.3615683
%T Exploring Unimodal Notification Interaction and Display Methods in Augmented Reality
%U http://downloads.hci.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/2023-vrst-exploring-unimodal-notification-interaction.pdf
%X As we develop computing platforms for augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMDs) technologies for social or workplace environments, understanding how users interact with notifications in immersive environments has become crucial. We researched effectiveness and user preferences of different interaction modalities for notifications, along with two types of notification display methods. In our study, participants were immersed in a simulated cooking environment using an AR-HMD, where they had to fulfill customer orders. During the cooking process, participants received notifications related to customer orders and ingredient updates. They were given three interaction modes for those notifications: voice commands, eye gaze and dwell, and hand gestures. To manage multiple notifications at once, we also researched two different notification list displays, one attached to the user’s hand and one in the world. Results indicate that participants preferred using their hands to interact with notifications and having the list of notifications attached to their hands. Voice and gaze interaction was perceived as having lower usability than touch.
@inproceedings{plabst2023exploring,
abstract = {As we develop computing platforms for augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMDs) technologies for social or workplace environments, understanding how users interact with notifications in immersive environments has become crucial. We researched effectiveness and user preferences of different interaction modalities for notifications, along with two types of notification display methods. In our study, participants were immersed in a simulated cooking environment using an AR-HMD, where they had to fulfill customer orders. During the cooking process, participants received notifications related to customer orders and ingredient updates. They were given three interaction modes for those notifications: voice commands, eye gaze and dwell, and hand gestures. To manage multiple notifications at once, we also researched two different notification list displays, one attached to the user’s hand and one in the world. Results indicate that participants preferred using their hands to interact with notifications and having the list of notifications attached to their hands. Voice and gaze interaction was perceived as having lower usability than touch.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Plabst, Lucas and Raikwar, Aditya and Oberdörfer, Sebastian and Ortega, Francisco Raul and Niebling, Florian},
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booktitle = {29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology},
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publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
timestamp = {2023-10-10T10:10:29.000+0200},
title = {Exploring Unimodal Notification Interaction and Display Methods in Augmented Reality},
url = {http://downloads.hci.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/2023-vrst-exploring-unimodal-notification-interaction.pdf},
year = 2023
}