Relation between location of information displayed by augmented reality and user's memorization

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of Augmented Reality (AR) on user's memory skills when it is used as an information display method. By definition, AR is a technology which displays virtual images on the real world. These computer generated images naturally contain location information on the real world. It is also known that humans can easily memorize and remember information if this information is retained along with some locations on the real world. Thus, we hypothesize that displaying annotations by using AR may have better effects on the user's memory skill, if they are associated with the location of the target object on the real world rather than when connected with an unrelated location. A user study was conducted with 30 participants in order to verify our hypothesis. As a result, a significant difference was found between the situation when information was associated with the location of the target object on the real world and when it was connected with an unrelated location. In this paper, we present the test results and explain the verification based on the results.