AR Notification Interface Movement-Based Situational Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality (AR) systems fail to effectively notify users of their situational awareness in physical real-world environments, potentially leading to safety hazards due to over-reliance on AR views that may distract from real-world surroundings.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that generates an AR view of a physical environment and transitions elements within the interface based on detected user movement, increasing prominence of notifications to alert users to their surroundings, thereby enhancing situational awareness and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If AR views are continuously displayed to enhance user experience, then user engagement with AR content is improved, but user situational awareness of the physical environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The notification element transitions between different states (hidden, partially visible, fully visible) in a periodic manner based on detected user movement, creating rhythmic alerts that periodically draw user attention to their physical surroundings without continuously blocking AR content
Solution Approach 2:
The notification element's visibility and prominence are dynamically adjusted based on real-time detection of user movement characteristics (speed, direction, acceleration), making the system adaptive to user context rather than static
2Reliability
If notification prominence is increased to alert users to their surroundings, then user safety is improved, but computing resource utilization increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system applies partial action by only activating prominent notifications when specific movement conditions are met (e.g., sudden acceleration, direction changes), rather than continuously or excessively alerting the user in all situations
Solution Approach 2:
The notification element's visual parameters (opacity, size, position) are changed based on movement analysis, allowing the system to convey safety alerts with varying prominence levels that match the urgency of the situation, optimizing resource usage
3Loss of information
If AR interface elements are made more prominent to convey information, then information delivery is improved, but user distraction from physical environment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification element is positioned in specific local areas of the AR interface (such as corners or edges) rather than centrally, and its prominence is locally adjusted based on user movement, delivering information without dominating the entire visual field
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system uses temporal dimension (timing and duration of alerts) and spatial dimension (positioning in AR space) to convey information, rather than relying solely on increasing visual prominence in the same dimension as AR content
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to providing a notification in association with an augmented reality (AR) view. In particular, one or more computing devices can generate, for display by at least one of the computing device(s), an interface depicting an AR view of at least a portion of a physical real-world environment. In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, based at least in part on detected movement of the at least one of the computing device(s), the computing device(s) can transition amongst multiple different stages of one or more elements included in the interface to notify a viewer of the interface to mind their situational awareness of the physical real-world environment.