Rivalry and Interference with a Head Mounted Display
Abstract
Perceptual factors that affect monocular, transparent (a.k.a "see-thru") head-mounted displays include binocular rivalry, visual interference, and depth of focus. We report the results of an experiment designed to evaluate the effects of these factors on user performance in a table look-up task. Two backgrounds were used. A dynamic moving background was provided by a large screen TV and an untidy bookshelf was used to provide a complex static background. With the TV background large effects were found attributable to both rivalry and visual interference. These two effects were roughly additive. Smaller effects were found with the bookshelf. In conclusion we suggest that monocular transparent HMDs may be unsuitable for use in visually dynamic environments. However when backgrounds are relatively static, having a transparent display may be preferable to having an opaque display.
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
9-2002
Volume
9, No. 3
Journal Title
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI)
Pages
238-251
Publisher Place
New York, NY, USA
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/568513.568516
Document Type
Journal Article
Recommended Citation
R. S. Laramee and C. Ware, "Rivalry and interference with a head-mounted display," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 238–251, Sep. 2002.