Publications / 2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea

Experimental Framework for Evaluating Cognitive Workload of Using AR System in General Assembly Task

Lei Hou; Xiangyu Wang
Pages 625-630 (2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea, ISBN 978-89-954572-4-5, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

Assembly task is an activity of collecting parts/components and bringing them together through assembly operations to perform one or more of several primary functions. As an emerging and powerful technology, Augmented Reality (AR) integrates images of virtual objects into a real world. Due to its self-characteristic features, AR is envisaged to provide great potentials in guiding assembly task. In this paper, it reviews some AR applications in the area of assembly and elaborates the great potentials of integrating animated agent with current AR technique in guiding product assembly. Besides, in view that different assembly operations share certain common features and functions in essence, the authors formulate the experimental framework for evaluating cognitive workload of using animated AR system in general assembly task and make the framework general to be applied in evaluating diverse classes of AR systems for different assembly operations.

Keywords: Augmented Reality, Cognitive Workload, Experimental Framework