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What to Distinguish and How? Opportunities and Challenges of Augmenting Multiple, Cluttered Objects in Complex Scenes for People with Low Vision
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arXiv:2607.10902v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: People with low vision (PLV) struggle to perceive complex scenes like busy kitchens and crowded streets, which contain many objects, visual clutter, and dynamic elements. Prior AR systems for low vision either enhance low-level visual features or augment task-relevant objects for single tasks in simple settings, leaving multi-object augmentation in complex scenes underexplored. Informed by a formative study characterizing important objects and their perceived importance for PLV, we built SceneGlance, a wearable AR system that recognizes important objects and visually distinguishes them by importance level. Through a controlled lab study with 12 PLV in a mock-up kitchen scene and a free-form think-aloud study with 13 PLV navigating an outdoor route, we found that AR distinction on object importance shifted PLV's attention toward objects of higher importance, and supported perception strategies such as building mental snapshots from the augmentation distribution and hierarchical scanning by importance. However, this attention shift came with a tradeoff of reduced overall scene recall. The studies also surfaced challenges posed by AR augmentations in complex scenes, such as adjacent augmentations blending or interfering with each other, yielding design implications for more practical AR vision enhancement systems in the complex real world.
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