Augmented Reality Applications Assisting Maintenance Activities in Extreme Environments: HCI Issues

Abstract

Maintenance of complex technology artifacts in hazardous environments can be a risky and demanding procedure. Operators need to be both efficient and meticulous in their activities in order to ensure the quality of their maintenance activities and the effectiveness of the limited time spent in the hazardous environment. Thus, an intuitive AR informative system could improve the operators' efficiency during their presence in the hazardous environment. What are the Human-Computer Interaction implications that arise in such applications?. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.