Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types

Thomas Williams; Simon Jones; Christof Lutteroth; Elies Dekoninck; Hazel Boyd

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445476

Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types

Thomas Williams, Simon Jones, Christof Lutteroth, Elies Dekoninck, Hazel Boyd

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Abstract

Older adults can benefit from technologies that help them to complete everyday tasks. However, they are an often-under-represented population in augmented reality (AR) research. We present the results of a study in which people aged 50 years or older were asked to perform actions by interpreting visual AR prompts in a lab setting. Our results show that users were less successful at completing actions when using ARROWand HIGHLIGHT augmentations than when using ghosted OBJECT or GHOSTHAND augmentations. We found that user confidence in performing actions varied according to action and augmentation type. Users preferred combined AUDIO+TEXT prompts (our control condition) overall, but the GHOSTHAND was the most preferred visual prompt. We discuss reasons for these differences and provide insight for developers of AR content for older adults. Ourwork provides the first comparative study of AR with older adults in a non-industrial context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445476
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2021
Event	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Thank you to all of the participants of this study. The first author would like to thank Rob Hanson and Jess Ridgers for their help with producing the physical resources for the study. This research was funded by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Entertainment (Grant Code: EP/L016540/1).

Keywords

Augmented reality
Older adults
Prompting tools
Task prompting

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Williams, T., Jones, S., Lutteroth, C., Dekoninck, E., & Boyd, H. (2021). Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445476

Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types. / Williams, Thomas; Jones, Simon; Lutteroth, Christof et al.
CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Williams, T, Jones, S, Lutteroth, C , Dekoninck, E & Boyd, H 2021, Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021, Virtual, Online, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445476

Williams T, Jones S, Lutteroth C , Dekoninck E, Boyd H. Augmented reality and older adults: A comparison of prompting types. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445476

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