Comparison of diferent types of augmented reality visualizations for instructions

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly being used for providing guidance and supporting troubleshooting in industrial settings. While the general application of AR has been shown to provide clear benefts regarding physical tasks, it is important to understand how diferent visualization types infuence user's performance during the execution of the tasks. Previous studies evaluating AR and user's performance compared diferent media types or types of AR hardware as opposed to diferent types of visualization for the same hardware type. This paper provides details of our comparative study in which we identifed the infuence of visualization types on the performance of complex machine set-up processes. Although our results show clear advantages to using concrete rather than abstract visualizations, we also fnd abstract visualizations coupled with videos leads to similar user performance as with concrete visualizations.