User interface design for military AR applications

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive user interface design for military augmented reality applications, focusing on information relevance, occlusion handling, interaction methods, and collaboration to enhance situational awareness.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated UI framework tailored for military AR, addressing filtering, presentation, interaction, and collaboration challenges with expert-informed architecture.

Findings

Effective information filtering based on location.

Methods for representing occluded entities.

Enhanced collaboration features.

Abstract

Designing a user interface for military situation awareness presents challenges for managing information in a useful and usable manner. We present an integrated set of functions for the presentation of and interaction with information for a mobile augmented reality application for military applications. Our research has concentrated on four areas. We filter information based on relevance to the user (in turn based on location), evaluate methods for presenting information that represents entities occluded from the user's view, enable interaction through a top-down map view metaphor akin to current techniques used in the military, and facilitate collaboration with other mobile users and/or a command center. In addition, we refined the user interface architecture to conform to requirements from subject matter experts. We discuss the lessons learned in our work and directions for future research.