HighAR – Visual Highlighting in Augmented Reality

A core component of many augmented reality applications is to focus the user's visual attention on a specific object in the real world, e.g., assembly instructions. Prof. Sedlmair is looking at how this visual attention can be controlled with AR. What are the possibilities for visually highlighting real objects with AR? Examples include changing the color or adding motion. These approaches should lead to faster data acquisition by the user.
Methodologically, usability and psychophysics studies will be conducted and a number of real-world applications will be investigated.

Prof. Sedlmair holds the Cyber Valley Professor of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality at the University of Stuttgart and is part of the SimTech cluster of excellence. In addition to virtual reality and augmented reality, his research interests include human-machine and human-data interaction, foundations of perception and cognition, and interactive data visualization. Previously, he worked at Jacobs University Bremen, University of Vienna, University of British Columbia, LMU Munich, and BMW.