Investigating the Usability of a Head-Mounted Display Augmented Reality Device in Elementary School Children.

ABSTRACT: Augmenting reality via head-mounted displays (HMD-AR) is an emerging technology in education. The interactivity provided by HMD-AR devices is particularly promising for learning, but presents a challenge to human activity recognition, especially with children. Recent technological advances regarding speech and gesture recognition concerning Microsoft's HoloLens 2 may address this prevailing issue. In a within-subjects study with 47 elementary school children (2nd to 6th grade), we examined the usability of the HoloLens 2 using a standardized tutorial on multimodal interaction in AR. The overall system usability was rated "good". However, several behavioral metrics indicated that specific interaction modes differed in their efficiency. The results are of major importance for the development

SUBMITTER: Lauer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8512836 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature